Hi, I am Ronald G. Currell and I'm looking for information and statistics that will support the Electronics Industry's contentions that High-temperature Soldering is detrimental to solder joints in general and to the devices into which they are installed in specific. I have an article titled, "The Effects of High-Temperature Soldering on Solder Joints," which I wrote for SMT Magazine, but for which I have no supporting data to actually prove the points, which many academics in the field seem to take for granted. To review the article: http://smt.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm? Section=OnlineArticles&SubSection=Display&PUBLICATION_ID=35&ARTICLE_ID=14664 3 Do you have any information that will help -- or could you point me to someone who might? Thank you, Ronald G. Currell P.S. To submit articles for an up-coming book "The Engineer's Guide to Soldering Practices in the Electronic Industry", write for an abstract to [log in to unmask] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------