Jason, There are litterly hundreds of formulations of conformal coatings, it sounds like a different formulatin that will stick better may be your best solution for this aplication. -----Original Message----- From: Timothy Reeves [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: April 6, 2000 12:42 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [TN] Roughing up a board Jason, Are you sure it isn't the soldermask incompatibility with the conformal coating that's giving you trouble? Some masks have polymerization inhibitors in them (to control the rate and extent of polymerization) which may interfere with your particular coating. I wouldn't go "roughing up" the boards until you eliminate that possibility. Tim Reeves > ---------- > From: Jason Gregory > Sent: Thursday, April 6, 2000 9:09 > Subject: Roughing up a board > > Hello all, > > We have a customer's board that is not being all agreeable with the > conformal coating we're applying. It seems the gloss finish is the > culprit. Is there a way to "rough up" the finish without attacking the > pads that will not degrade the boards at all and is documented as being > so? Please reply on any methods. Thanks. > > Jason Gregory > Production Manager > Electrospec > 8626 Westpark > Houston, TX. 77063 > (713)784-4900 > (713)784-1194 fax > [log in to unmask] > ############################################################## TechNet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ############################################################## To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE TECHNET <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF TECHNET ############################################################## Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information. If you need assistance - contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ############################################################## ############################################################## TechNet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ############################################################## To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE TECHNET <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF TECHNET ############################################################## Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information. If you need assistance - contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ##############################################################