Earl Have you considered a solder fountain for those caps? Less controlled than the wave, but probably better than an iron or a selective pallet for a 3X3 area. Don Vischulis -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Earl Moon Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 5:35 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [TN] Fab Process question related to ENIG Yeh, they and many other things get shorted out often. Our design engineers, in their infinite wisdom did many things wrong. There's one 3 inch square analog area they placed at the corner of an 11x11" board with you know what - about a dozen of those blue beuaties, electrolytic caps that is so wave solder a necessity. Some other through hole stuff as well that needn't be. Could have been SMT or left on the R/F daughter card. It's all a big compromise. Just thinking out loud really about the bottom side solder shields. Anyone else so I don't have to go to blind vias or wave pallets? MoonBaseMan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- 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 e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest 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 e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------