Thanks to all the great guys who contacted me off line about this.  The 
engineers win!

>  -----Original Message-----
> From:         Gottlieb, Jonathan  
> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 9:38 AM
> To:   'elecraft@mailman.qth.net'
> Subject:      KDSP2 U2 Solder the leads?
> 
> Page 8 of the KDSP2 instructions are very clear about soldering the tab of U2 
> in order to relieve mechanical stress from the leads of U2 when the KDSP2 PCB 
> is mounted and the mounting screw tightened.  The instructions do not, 
> however, tell you to solder the leads.  This may be obvious to most, but not 
> to this attorney.  I spent some time looking for the instructions to solder 
> the leads.  Not finding it mentioned, I chalked it up to another case of 
> engineers writing for engineers and went ahead and soldered the leads.  
> 
> Jonathan Gottlieb
> WA3WDK
> K2 #4856
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