It's very difficult to repair or prevent something beyond the rated materials performances you are only asking for trouble. Happy Holidays! www.quickturnflex.com Thank you, Jim Mahoney Quick Turn Flex Circuits, LLC Applications Project Manager P# 603-821-7071 M# 603-305-6250 Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail ** This email and all attachments have been scanned prior to being sent** Confidentiality Notice: This page and any accompanying documents contain information that is confidential, privileged or exempt from disclosure and is intended for the exclusive use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information in any manner is strictly prohibited. -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Steve Kelly Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 11:26 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [TN] Via fill on flex Hi All, We have a 6 layer flex that my customer has to thermal cycle at temperatures beyond the rated Tg's of the material- the end use environment is about as bad as it gets. After repeated thermal cycles we start to see cracks develop in the glue layer used to bond the adhesiveless layers together. Will some kind of via fill help this issue? Thanks in advance. Regards Steve Kelly Steve Kelly (PLEASE NOTE NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS) (416) 750-8433 (work) (416) 750-0016 (fax) (416) 577-8433 (cell) --------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------