[Elecraft] K3: PC boards - lead free?

[David Pratt]

Do the K3 PC boards use lead free solder?

I have just read the rather disturbing article in last Thursday's 
Guardian newspaper that highlights a potential problem with whiskers 
developing on the solder as well as the solder being more brittle and 
likely to fail if the boards are flexed.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/apr/03/research.engineering

There are evidently conferences currently being held to discuss the 
problem to which Sun Microsystems and IBM are involved. This is worrying 
reading and makes me wonder how long it will be before my K3 will fail.

73
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David G4DMP
Leeds, England, UK
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