Outstanding Rick,

I agree and side with Kerry as well but for his "boring" comment. I know he
meant well as we all try CPI.

Other folks, me included, have commented on the lack of board type people
participating enough on this forum. I certainly have done my best to get
them back but probably have bored them and others to leaving because of my
excessive time on the forum.

Phil Hinton said this forum is becoming an "good old boys club" or some such
thing. I agreed then as now but we have the freedom to participate or not.

I just want the facts man, just the facts. I have way more questions than
answers but one thing is sure - we need more fabricators on this thing.

I just finished a concurrent engineering conference with my assembler, my
company, and my fab supplier. Excellent results concerning solder wetting,
or not.

Turns out our great fab supplier (Proto Engineering)provided highly
solderable ENIG boards that didn't look that great after assembly in some
areas. Also turns out, our fantastic assembler (MPI) uses the latest DEK
stencil printers with ProFlo heads. Because of this, and the large pads
required for a few parts, MPI requested steicils with "window pane"
apertures for these large pads. Hence, non wetting on some pad areas. New
one to me but greatly appreciated for us all.

Where have all the board people gone, long time passing. I'll get of the
fourm if it's me but we need fab folks no matter.

MoonMan

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