Jana, I didn't know this thing was a flex circuit. I could tell you some stories about this business. So can my old pal Earl Zawicki (EZ). He and I worked for a well known board house Southern California some 20 years ago. The company was proud of making the most difficult boards imaginable at that time and even now. The motto was that we would build anything for the right price. Most often EZ (fine young process engineer he was) and the team would do the trick. However, sometimes it couldn't be done after assuring the customer it could. If EZ is lurking, he might tell a story or two that no amount of inspection, process control, or DFM would cure. You just might have one of those stories to tell someday soon. I hope not for your sake. No matter, your inspection efforts or the suppliers will do no good. You just may have to take what you can get out of your 100% inspection efforts and be happy. Earl --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------