Help, I have been tasked with finding a way of remote mounting part of a circuit assembly received from a vendor. The problem is the component I am looking to remote mount is attached to the main unit using ribbon cables. These cables appear to have gold fingers at the attachment site affixed to gold fingers on the circuit assembly we whish to remote mount. There are no signs of solder or silver epoxy at the separated sites, and the ribbon cables peel away from the circuit card assembly with little force. So - my questions are 1) how are the ribbon cables attached , and 2) is there a reliable, NON-DAMAGING way to remove them for rework? TIA, Jeffrey A McGlaughlin, CID Engineering Designer Battelle Memorial Institute Columbus Ohio http://www.battelle.org [log in to unmask] --------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------