You mean to tell me they allow you to take two weeks vacation at the same time. That would be my problem we only get the opportunity to take one week off at a time unless you get special dispensation from the Pope first. I am certain from my experience that one week is not enough time for these things to fix themselves. Steve Gregory <[log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask] M> cc: Sent by: TechNet Subject: [TN] My solderball saga... <[log in to unmask]> 07/21/04 01:41 PM Please respond to "TechNet E-Mail Forum."; Please respond to SteveZeva Hi All! Well, I'm off of vacation now, trying to get back into the swing of things here at work, and Cheryl's email reminded me about my recent solderball deal. BTW Cheryl, there's not much I can help you with as I didn't find a good way either to remove the solderballs we had on our boards, other than mechanically brushing them away. But back to my deal...and this is weird. You remember my problem right? The little tiny solderballs that we were seeing after wave solder just around some Aries SMT-to-PTH adapters installed on the board. I tried everything under the sun to try and eliminate them, but nothing worked. So I just gave up and we had to spend time to brush them away by hand. I came back from vaction hoping that someone found a solution, and fixed the problem. So I asked our wave solder supervisor how that assembly was waving, and did the solderball problem get fixed? He then told me; "They just went away..." I asked; "So what did you change to get rid of them?" He said; "Nothing was changed, they just went away..." I said; "You've got to be kidding!" He said; "Nope, they just went away..." So the moral of the story is; if you run into a problem that you can't solve, take two weeks vacation and don't let anybody do anything to try and fix things, then when you get back the problem will fixed!! It worked for me!! -Steve Gregory- --------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------- STATEMENT OF CONFIDENTIALITY: If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by e-mail at the address shown. This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential information. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) or entity to whom it is intended even if addressed incorrectly. Please delete it from your files if you are not the intended recipient. Thank you for your compliance. --------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------