Hahaha! You just reminded me of my Navy days! I remember going out in town to have few cool ones with my shipmates and walking into a bar filled with marines, and being caught there when one of the grunts yelled; "Skivy check"! Then wishing that I hadn't been wearing them. I just guess you had to be there... (You sailors and Marines know what I'm talking about) Steve -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ken Bloomquist Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 10:37 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [TN] The meaning of "skived" I could have sworn that "skiving" was when you didn't have a bathing suit and went swimming with just your skives on :-) Happy Friday, KennyB -----Original Message----- From: Simonik, Dave R. (David) [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 8:11 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [TN] The meaning of "skived" We also use the term 'skived', but only in our laser drilling process. The process of skiving in our facility is the use of the Uv laser to skive down to inner layer alignment targets. This process of involves continuous pulsing of the Uv laser, whereby a window is opened up on the board. The process pulses the beam in a raster pattern, with shot and line spacing set for the proper removal of material at high power and low rep rate. The second step of the skiving process uses lower power at a higher rep rate with expanded shot & line spacing to clean the copper surface of remaining dielectric material in order that the vision system can capture the imaged target. Dave Simonik Process Technician Sanmina SCI Owego NY PCB Division --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 15.0 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 15.0 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 -----------------------------------------------------