Ramon, Yes. Don't do it and spare yourself the cruel and unusual punishment. Depending on your customers and critical end-use applications, the amount of effort to do this and control it is incredible. It can be done, but it extracts a heavy toll. Even meager efforts in-house with chips is a waste of dough( now class did you catch the joke? Toll house morsels = Chips( chocolate) = waste of dough. Good you earned your chocolate chip cookie). Dewey -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dehoyos, Ramon Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 8:18 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [TN] Tin Whisker Mitigation Hello TechNetters: Does anyone know of companies that are replating parts with Sn63 and reballing BGAs? Could any one share their experiences in doing this effort? Things such as: extra time needed, cost, reliability....... Regards and TIA, Ramon Dehoyos, 410.552.2210 --------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------