Sherry,

I very good summation of the HASL process.  There is one thing though that
has been bothering me for some time now.  Why is it that some of the solder
manufactures of no lead solders, such as Castin, are adding copper to the
formulations?  This flies in the face of what process engineering's have been
taught for years.

Larry

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