Ramon, Can you indicate what the source of the tooling is? Is it exactly the correct tooling for the terminal in question? Another area I would look at is board thickness. Terminals have been typically made for standard thickness of board materials such as .031, .062, etc. I've had problems with boards coming in thinner than what the terminal was made for. This makes the swage operation more difficult to do without cracks and splits. I've even used a small thin solderable washer on the turret side of a terminal in order to have the proper thickness so the terminal will swage properly. Bill Kasprzak Moog Inc Process Engineer, Electronic Assembly "Dehoyos, Ramon" <[log in to unmask]> Sent by: TechNet <[log in to unmask]> 03/28/2005 08:16 AM Please respond to TechNet E-Mail Forum <[log in to unmask]>; Please respond to "Dehoyos, Ramon" <[log in to unmask]> To [log in to unmask] cc Subject [TN] Solder Terminals Hi Technetters: I would like to know if anybody has experienced difficulties in flaring the flange of solder terminals. On J-std-001C 6.2.3 it states that the angle of flare shall be between 35 and 120 deg. Some terminals crack even if they are flared at 36 deg. Other terminals can be flared at 120 deg and not crack. I suspect that the plating finish has a lot to do with it. Regards, Ramon --------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------