What the heck, as long as we're going down memory lane - did you ever run blue laminate through the reflow machine when it was set for "natural" FR-4? Still remember the aroma. Don Vischulis -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Earl Moon Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 12:16 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [TN] Hot Oil Now Rick, I know you never would be, or have been, pissed off at the boss. You sure never saw, or see, me getting pissed off at such a clean process or the boss. Hell, at one time I was the boss then traded in the shop for such a wonderful future ex wife. What was here name anyway. Many things left better not remembered. Used the IR as well. The obvious reason it had problems was it was the focused variety. No sir, no convection there. It was best for delaminating boards. Talk about popcorning especially while trying to level boards with those huge external ground planes of the day. Eehaw - again those were the days. MoonMan --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------