If you are having these medical problems, with soldering - it might just mean that you aren't meant to do any soldering. There are plenty of K2 builder resources out there.
I have a very good friend who had great allergic reactions to boat-building epoxy resins. Even years after the boat was completed - he used to get reactions just getting down in inner areas of the epoxy fiberglass plywood stitch and glue boat he had built. In his case, he was just barely able to get thru with the year-long boat building project - with the help of major garage exhaust fans and all sorts of fumes enclosures. I suspect some of us are just allergic to certain situations and fumes or chemicals. Me it is bees .............. Good luck, Fred, FL ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't get soaked. Take a quick peak at the forecast with the Yahoo! Search weather shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#loc_weather _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com