Good Day to everyone, We have been experiencing an issue with deep gold plating after etch. The undercut is breaking away making the traces look "hairy." The gold either clings and drags away from the trace or breaks loose at LPI/Soldermask and floats in the ink to some other undesireable location. It is not consistent but it is persistant. Has anyone had this issue before and could someone suggest some possible solutions? (It never happens with standard copper plating--just deep gold.) Thanks, Steve MacDonald Mass Design --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e 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 or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------