Your supplier can fix it. Order them to step in line now, or it will never go away... BTW, go easy on the soldermask scratches unless you really want the soldermask repaired. Granted, it stinks having scratches in the soldermask, but solder mask repair means that SOMEWHERE, that goop is going to end up your SMT pads. You'll find out about it after you put a bunch of components on the board and solder them down. Given the choice of two evils, I pick the scratch instead of mask repair. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of ekalgren Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:54 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [TN] PCB rejection criteria Good morning everyone, I've got a question on bare PCB's. These are relatively simple boards that have been red flagged in incoming inspection for having scratches in the soldermask that expose the underlying copper. Now, even I know that this is truly a defect. QA has also written up the entire lot of boards for being dusty and a couple of the lot for having "excess solder." The excess solder is just a couple of PTH's that are partially filled by the HASL. I'm not sure what the dust is but it blows off easily and doesn't seem to be affecting anything other than the inspector's sense of cleanliness. My question to all of you out there is: how should I handle the dust issue? Is this typical of boards coming in from the shop and should I tell the inspectors to go easier in the future or do I demand spotless, dust free boards from our supplier? I don't want to accept junk but at the same time I don't want to drive costs up by over inspecting. Where does one draw the line? Thanks in advance, Eric Kalgren Manufacturing Engineer Continental Tool and Microwave Company [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 847-615-7100 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 -----------------------------------------------------