In , on 04/22/04
at 09:55 PM, "Colin B." said:

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So what DOES cause the whiskers to grow? And is there any hope of
aligning a tuner with typical bench equipment (DVM, scope, signal
generator)?

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It's a metallurgical problem, crystal growth. Some alloys do it, some
don't. I don't understand why they use that alloy in tuning capacitors.
They knew about this problem at least by the 50's, maybe earlier. I've
heard some concern that the new lead free solders may have this
problem. (won't that be fun)

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