We made some flex circuits for a customer and wound up putting too much gold on - approx. 75 microinches. The nickel is averaging 153. The gold meets all the purity specs. Under the wire bond area is a large heat sink. My customer is having difficulties wire bonding. Is too much gold a problem or can the heat sink cause issues. Regards Steve Kelly -------------------------- Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld (www.BlackBerry.net) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------