Hi, Some surface mount modules that I bought are made from regular PCB material and the mounting pads seem to be plated through holes cut in half. I can't buy those modules anymore and the manufacturers have made lots of our product but without these modules. I need to make an adaptor pcb and doing it the way the orignal modules were made seems to be the easiest. They are just PTH cut in half with a nice cutting tool aren't they? Or are they a PCB with half of the PTH on the PCB and the other half falling off the side? If I went to our rapid prototyping people with this on our PCB would they understand? Do you understand what I mean? Rod. --------------------------------------------------- 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 847-615-7100 ext.2815 -----------------------------------------------------