Hi Mike, Sounds like you need to d a little test between bake & no bake and convince everyone it's okay. We had to do that on the bare board side to stop the debate. Hans -----Original Message----- From: WEEKES, MICHAEL HS-SNS [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 10:16 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [TN] board baking Years ago, at Raytheon , we used to bake PWBs prior to soldering. Over 18 yrs I have seen this trend fade away and good riddance, too. I recently joined a company who maintains board bake - manufacturing hates it, but there is one very legitimate expert who still promotes it. I'm looking for help / evidence or reports/data that justify the elimination of this non-value added step. I thought, especially after attending a great IPC session by mike Carano, that if boards are properly fabricated and sealed, air tight in a bag, prior to shipment to the user (soldering company/assembly house) they'd be good, as long as they remain bagged up to point of use. please offer suggestions/solutions. thanks, Mike` ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------