Techies:

Thanks for your response to the above-mentioned topic.

As it turned out, the root cause of the problem wasn't as difficult or
"off-the-wall" as I originally thought it to be.  Steve Gregory hit the nail on
the head.

Our assembly subcontractor splashed solder on the adjacent gold fingers during
component replacement.  They used in-house gold replating operation to resurface
the fingers and were a bit overzealous in the plating, causing the MELF
terminals to be inadvartantly coated along with the fingers with the "new" gold.

Bill Fabry

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