Well, now that we have firmly established that I AM a two headed monster
and should be shot whenever coming within 100 yards of the clean room.....

Yes, I would have preferred not to risk the cross-contamination issue, IF I
COULD.  That plasma cleaner was the only one large enought to handle the
assemblies in question, and I was given all of today to solve a
multimillion dollar potential problem.  So going out of house was not an
option.  We already wash with a saponifier, but that does not increase the
surface roughness of the solder mask or components.  The parameters I
selected were done so with a mild etch in mind, not the aggressive profiles
used for decap.  If you have ever been in a production crunch, you know
that you often get put in positions were you would rather not be if you had
your druthers.

Doug Pauls

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