check with your vendor if it is intended for soldering or silver  

epoxy mount...

On Aug 28, 2017, at 10:37 AM, Vargas, Stephen M wrote:



> Good morning:

>

>       We've experienced some soldering difficulties with small 0402  

> inductors using a silver palladium platinum glass plating. Our  

> application is a 63/37 process and we find that these parts shift  

> randomly through our reflow oven and the overall soldering is less  

> than optimum. The part is available in a more robust plating, but  

> the cost impact is absurd. I'm wondering if others have run into  

> similar problems with this finish and why the difficulty in  

> soldering these parts. Thanks in advance.

>

> Regards,

> Steve Vargas