Susan, Take a look in IPC-A-610 on page 5-17, paragraph 5.2.7.2 Mounting - Wire/Lead Termination- Printed Board - Clinched. It may give you some insight. Barry. -----Original Message----- From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 3:36 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [TN] assembly spacing I have a component lead that is clinched on the bottom and the lead is almost touching the surface of a conductor. Good old 001C says that the oreintation of the clinch relative to any conductor is optional. However, it appears that direction is causing the problem. Of course the assembly is conformal coated and it is nearly impossible to determine the exact spacing from the surface. Are there other guidelines for this condition? Thanks for any info Susan Mansilla Robisan Lab ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- 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 the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/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 the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------