"... This is exactly the reason I became concerned and ticked off when learned of this RoHS regulation when buying electronics components for hobby projects. ..

"... This is exactly the reason I became concerned and ticked off when learned of this RoHS regulation when buying electronics components for hobby projects. ..." I first stumbled across this problem looking at the whisker site nasa has ~ http://nepp.nasa.gov/whisker http://nepp.nasa.gov/whisker where there is some serious "whisker mitigation" going on. There are lots of interesting images showing why this is a real problem.