Are any of you still manufacturing boards with plating bars? We have a design where the plating bars are attached to small (13mil) vias, to switch contacts on the opposite side. Could the plating process damage those vias? I tried to look it up in Coombs but got scared by terms like 600A/squarefoot! That was AFTER I opened my big mouth and said, "If electro-plating could damage vias, I woulda heard about it sometime in the last 20 years!" now I'm wonderin' if I owe someone a lunch or something... Jack (the "sometimes I wish I could just shut up guy") --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DesignerCouncil Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF DesignerCouncil. To temporarily stop/(restart) delivery of DesignerCouncil send: SET DesignerCouncil NOMAIL/(MAIL) Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > E-mail 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------