I attended the first one: great conference and small exhibition in the 
Metropole hotel in Brighton. It was truly an international event with 
delegates from the whole of Europe and simultaneous interpretation 
to/from French and German, at least. I gave a paper on contamination and 
solderability at the 2nd one in 1969. At one point in my discourse, I 
talked about 'preservative coatings' and this raised giggles here and 
there in the audience, numbering about 500. I immediately cottoned onto 
why: the French translator used the term 'couches préservatives'. 
Unfortunately, in French, the term 'préservati-f, -ve' is used only 
medically as a means of preventing disease and the noun is a condom. The 
mind boggles visualising a printed circuit inside a contraceptive to 
maintain its solderability. Coming to think of it, why not? :-)

Brian

Douglas McCall wrote:
> Hi all technet users,
> For those of you lucky?? enough (or unlucky enough) to be working in our glorious electronics assembly industry in the UK, you may be interested in checking out the following link.
>  
> http://www.nepcon.co.uk/
>  
> As seen the Nepcon UK event appears to have been cancelled. Just shows huh.
>  
> Quote:
> �This has been a tough decision as Nepcon has run in the UK for 39 years, however, with so much electronic production moving to China and India, and with the entry of a new competitor which has split the market and forced many exhibitors to withdraw from exhibiting in the UK at all, we believe that we can not run an event that delivers for our exhibitors and visitors�
>  
> Sincerely,
>  
> D.McCall.
>  
>  
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