Rudy, Your comments are enlightening. Electroless and/or immersion plating result in relatively uniform deposit thicknesses. Would you surmise that if electrolytic deposition were capable of plating more uniform deposits that it would be the more widely used process and that electroless and immersion plating of the subject metals would be much less used? And if so, would you then be able to expound on the impact of such a technology shift in the industry? Roger Mouton P.S. My spellchecker says there's no word "thicknesses". Care to comment?