Hello All,
Thank you for your responses regarding "gold fingers" and plating. Seems that everyone involved in designing boards over the last half century or so has "tribal knowledge" of what is required but hunting it down in a specific specification was quite the challenge. Fixing our requirements to our suppliers today.
My new word - kerfuffle! Here's the googled definition and story.
KERFUFFLE/kəˈfʌf(ə)l/
A commotion or fuss.
You will most commonly come across this wonderfully expressive word in Britain and the British Commonwealth countries (though the White House spokesman Ari Fleischer used it in January this year). It is rather informal, though it often appears in newspapers. One of the odder things about it is that it changed its first letter in quite recent times. Up to the 1960s, it was written in all sorts of ways — curfuffle, carfuffle, cafuffle, cafoufle, even gefuffle (a clear indication that its main means of transmission was in speech, being too rarely written down to have established a standard spelling). But in that decade it suddenly became much more popular and settled on the current kerfuffle. Lexicographers suspect the change came in response to the way that a number of imitative words were spelled, like kerplop and kerplunk.
In those cases, the initial ker– adds emphasis, as it does in other words, perhaps onomatopoeic but perhaps also borrowing the first syllable of crash. But we know kerfuffle was originally Scots and it’s thought that its first part came from Scots Gaelic car, to twist or bend. The second bit is more of a puzzle: there is a Scots verb fuffle (now known only in local dialect), to throw into disorder, dishevel, or ruffle. No obvious origin for it is known and experts suspect it was an imitative word. It is probably linked with Scots fuff, to emit puffs of smoke or steam, definitely imitative, which in the late eighteenth century also had a sense of going off in a huff or flying into a temper.
Some specialists think kerfuffle is also related to the Irish cior thual, confusion or disorder. It seems to be a minority opinion, though.
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Best to define acceptable limits for kerfuffle for Class I/II/III
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Kerfuffle? I like it.
Dewey, lets add that to the IPC T-50 document.
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I just wanted to let everyone who participated in this thread that I
very
much appreciated learning something new. We recently experienced this
for
the first time (that I ever recall) and it caused a small kerfuffle and
some embarrassement on my part.
Thank you (from one lurker) !
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> Depending on the chamfer, the design itself may result in a
> piece of the buss bars being left. In either case, exposed
> copper will be seen and is acceptable per IPC-A-600.
> Paul Greene
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