Service manuals and the law...

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Hi.
As far as I knew, somewhere around 1992, a federal law was passed making it mandatory to all consumer electronics equipment vendors to make their service manuals available to the public, not only service centers.
¿ Can someone direct me on how to find details and confirm this ? ... or was it only a Californian affair ?
Thanks,
Miguel

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Can't answer that question, but check these links:<p>Consumer electronics:
http://www.servicemanuals.net/service.asp<p>Radios, TE, Some consumer:
http://www.agtannenbaum.com/<p>Radios, TE:
http://w7fg.com/<p>My Manuals Backflip ( you will figure that out when you get there ):<p>http://www.backflip.com/members/kd5kfl/ ... e=2/sort=0

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If I am not mistaken, the law you refer to
wasn't about selling service manuals to the general public, it was about refusing to sell
service information/and/or replacement parts
to third parties. I believe that companies like Xerox were taken to court because they would not
allow replacement parts to be sold to independent
repair companies.<p>As far as I know, there is no Federal law that
requires even the existance of a service manual.
(The law doesn't require that you produce a service manual at all, unless you are supplying
a piece of equipment to the US military).<p>Also of course, if there were a Federal law,
it would apply to all US States and Possesions
and Territories, and not just California,
this is why it is called "The United States of
America".