John,

If you point the business end of a smd hot air iron at the pad in question it will
soften it enough to allow you to scrape of the mask with a dull Xacto knife.

Gary Camac

John Koleszar wrote:

> hello everybody,
>
> I have run into a slight dilema, boards that we are building have several
> vias soldermasked that are needed for ict testing. This raises several
> questions:
> 1)Is it possible to remove mask from vias?
> 2)If so is this something that can be outsourced?
> 3)How much would it cost?
> 4)what are the reliabilty effects of doing this?
>
> thanks in advance.
>
> john koleszar
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