Hi, Kerry, You can rework this yourself with plating kits from Hunter. They supply pens with cleaning agent, nickel underplating, and gold overplating. It is very effective, and I have used these many times to replate gold fingers and contact areas. Check out www.hunterproducts.com/micro-metallizer.htm You need to purchase the plating kit, but it pays for itself many times, and is not expensive. They have a number of finishes available. -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kerry McMullen Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 3:22 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [TN] Solder on Gold Pads Hi, We accidently got 63/37 solder on some .25" gold pads. The pads are needed to be gold for contact reasons. Does anyone know of a repair company in the area that can remove the solder (down to the Cu) and replate? Unfortunately the boards are assembled. And of course, we need a three day turn. Thanks, Kerry Kerry McMullen Principal New Product Mfg. Engineer LTX Corporation 50 Rosemont Road Westwood, MA 02090-2306 (T) 781-467-5468 --------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------