I'm curious where are this "lead-free" activity is occuring? Looking at our orders over the past 5 years or so I do not see a significant decline in orders for HASL...containing 40% lead... we've installed immersion tin, working on immersion gold, have already got electrolytic gold, we have immersion silver, Entek, etc etc but we still receive a steady stream of orders for the good 'ol 60/40 coating...should I expect some trickle-down soon? I'm just curious is all... Franklin --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a 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/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 -----------------------------------------------------