[Elecraft] K3/100 kit

[Dave G4AON]

I wouldn't be in a hurry to wave a strong magnet anywhere near radio
equipment that contains ferrite or dust cores. When I worked in the
mobile radio industry we occasionally came across a mobile that had been
carried or stored with a magnetic mount antenna on it... The radio had
below specification performance with no obvious fault except the
alignment didn't seem right. The fix was to replace the cores. It's over
20 years since I worked on a bench repairing those radios, so I can't
recall the type of core.

Old Weller TCP irons with the magnetic switch near the tip are something
else to watch...

You might get away with it building an Elecraft kit, but I wouldn't risk it.

73 Dave, G4AON
K3/100 #80
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That doesn't mean I *never* drop something. I have very strong little magnet
on a long thin screwdriver-like-shaft that I can "wave" around near the PC
board and that almost always causes the part I dropped to jump up onto it
even if I couldn't see it.

Ron AC7AC