Geese!! Has anyone ever looked at a bunch of connecters up close? Why do they get what looks like 0.100" tolerances, and the poor boards get only a few measly mils. I'd check if they truly needed it. Just my $.02 -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Sherman Banks Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 6:09 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [TN] Plating up Gold Tabs Hello everyone, We have an interesting situation. We have product that is too thin to meet our card edge connector specification by about 2 mils. We need to build up these gold tabs by at least one mil (0.001") on each side of the board. The tabs are now approx one ounce copper with 200 micro inches of nickel and 30 micro inches of gold. Thoughts were to build up gold with electroless, or strip gold/nickel, plate up copper, then replate nickel and gold. Has anyone ever come across this sort of situation before? Any ideas? Note: Some of this product is on panel format, some single boards, and some loaded boards. Thanks in Advance Regards, Sherman Banks Finisar Corp. 1308 Moffett Park Drive Sunnyvale, CA 94089 408/542-4240 [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt delivery of Technet send the following message: SET Technet NOMAIL Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > E-mail Archives Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information, or 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 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt delivery of Technet send the following message: SET Technet NOMAIL Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > E-mail Archives Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------