Electroless Gold works pretty well. Solderstation One used to provide the service. Now Superior metal finishing is supplying the service. Superior is somewhere in Los Angeles, CA. 714-524-8525 pete On 17 Mar 03, at 8:46, Mike Kuczynski wrote: > Thanks to all for the wirebonding information last week. Here's a > follow-up question. > > Is there another way to get 30-50 microinches of soft gold on an FR4 > board, besides electroplating? > (Current vendor want to add a buss-bar to the board w/ connection to each > pad) > .062" thk bd, .0035/.0035 trace/spacing, 3" x 3" in size > > Peter Menuez QA Manager Proto Circuit, Inc. 330-572-3400 [log in to unmask] --------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------