Steve,

>    I've also had the experience from a non-conveyerized shop where
they've
>done the OSP coating first, then done the bed of nails test (which is
bass-
>ackwards) merely because of the logistics that it takes to move the
panels
>around...they kept things in the fab vendors panel size instead of
the
>production assembly panels because of the number of them (it's easier
to move
>one big panel than it is to move a bunch of smaller ones), and the
bed of
>nails tester was set-up to do the larger panels. So I wound-up
getting the
>panels with a nice divot in the OSP coating...it was a good thing we
built
>those quickly because I don't think they would've done well sitting
on the
>shelves for any length of time with a hole in the coating like
that...


We have a conveyorized OSP coating system and have had a customer
question whether we were actually doing the Bed-of-Nails ET because
they didn't see any "divots"!

Ah, customers -- the world would be a much better place without
them.... B^) B^)

--Mike and Micki Owens
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Bartlett, IL

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