Any chance the leads were Nickel over copper? I have seen similar on
rectangular leads where the Nickel flaked off when the leads were formed.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Gregory [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Monday, 7 March 2005 10:11 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [TN] Peeling Plating...

YAY! IT'S MONDAY!!! YAY!

(Ya'll are probably saying; "Sheesh, what's Steve been smoking?")

I'm not smoking anything...I said "YAY" with my tongue in my cheek, so to
speak.

It's Monday again, and I have a couple of pictures for you to look at and
let me know
if any of you have seen anything like this before. We got these pictures
from our customer
asking us if we know what might have caused this. Go to:

http://www.stevezeva.homestead.com

and look at "Plating Peel" and "Plating Peel Close-up". Obviously, this is
something that
you don't want to see on component leads. It kinda' looks like the lead is
shedding it's
skin...

We're going to contact the component vendor about this to see if they can
shed some light
on why this is happening...I wished I had the assembly here that the
pictures came from, but
we only have the photos right now.

Anybody ever seen this before?

"Monday, monday...can't trust that day
 Monday, monday...sometimes it just turns out that way
 Oh monday mornin' you gave me no warnin' of what was to be
 Oh monday, monday...how could you leave and not take me."


-Steve Gregory-
Senior Process Engineer
LaBarge Incorporated
Tulsa, Oklahoma
(918) 459-2285
(918) 459-2350 FAX
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