In message , nightjar
writes
On 02/11/2020 21:26, wrote:
It's the time of year when many of us start thinking about making
toys for kids and grandkids (and then panic in 4 weeks because
there's been no progress!) so I was just looking around for detailed
safety spec guidance and was surprised that a copy of EN71.1 is
freely available he https://law.resource.org/pub/eu/toys/en.71.1.2014.html
If you're not familiar with ENs they can be slightly hard going but,
in this case, the general principles are given in Annex 2 of the
"toys Directive". The Directive is tough but the annex is fairly easy
going:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-cont...ELEX:32009L004
8&from=EN Hope that's some use to someone other than me.

When I were a lad, toys were more Darwinistic.

We had catapults and bows and arrows before progressing to air rifles
and then shotguns/rifles. Somewhere I still have my sisters smooth bore
Webly air pistol!


--
Tim Lamb