Not as a standard procedure on CCAs but a couple here and there. It came
about due to poor surface energy tests and it does help. Quite often on
metallic parts like stainless steel and nickel before parylene coating. All
done in a vacuum. Although I would love to try open-air plasma.

Lloyd Duso
General Manager
Diamond-MT
(814) 535-3505
www.Diamond-mt.com


On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 2:42 PM Douglas Pauls <
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> Good morning all,
> Are any of you routinely treating assembly surfaces with plasma prior to
> conformal coating?  We do not, except for very niche applications, but I
> wanted to see if that was a mainstream process for anyone else.
>
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