Sadly, the importance of this may well be determined merely by the fact that the customer has an instrument which they feel they need to justify the purchase of. Rudy Sedlak RD Chemical Company --- On Fri, 10/9/09, Lee parker <[log in to unmask]> wrote: From: Lee parker <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: [TN] Criteria for brightness of Hard Gold plating To: [log in to unmask] Date: Friday, October 9, 2009, 6:44 AM I am curious, why is brightness important? The most significant index is hardness and there are testing techniques that have been accepted by the industry for many years. Best regards Lee J. L. Parker Ph. D. JLP Consultants LLC 804 779 3389 --------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------