And get a different PWB supplier. The ones I work with would have offered to re-drill the holes to remove the small amounts of copper plating that were not supposed to be there in the first place, not call out some improperly applied spec that somehow could be mis-interpreted to mean the copper plating can be in holes clearly marked as unplated on the fab drawing.

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Subject: Re: [TN] Plating in non-plated holes - again

Drill after ENIG

Brian

On 10.06.2014 18:26, Henry Rekers wrote:
> Hey there technetters.  A while back, I sent a message about enig plating
> contamination in NON-plated holes.   I've bounced it back to the board
> shop saying that it is unacceptable, but they claim it is due to 6012
> 3.5.2
> I also think it's unacceptable in the 4552 spec.   The design
> documentation clearly states non-plated.   It's not plated, just partially
> plated.
>
> Any advice?
>
> Thanks.
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