This dialogue is great so far but one big part of my question is missing. I cannot clean these solder joints with anything except spot cleaning. They cannot go through our in-line wash. My understanding is that spot (bench) cleaning is never a good idea as a final clean. I understand that testing is required and I'm prepared to do that but just wanted to get a feel for successes other people have had coating urethane over no-clean. By the way Inge, I'm not trying to cut corners by putting on no-clean pants ;-) Thanks, KennyB -----Original Message----- From: Inge [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 11:02 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [TN] Conformal Coat Over No-Clean Flux Who would like to live with no-clean pants? Cleanliness is alpha and omega even for electronics. I'm not a friend of NC either. I've never understood why this was introduced. Do you really save lots of money? Who is guilty? AT&T? or Bell? or Motorola? At least, I'm sure it was not Brian Ellis. He wears clean pants... oh.. it's not Friday yet. Inge ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please contact helpdesk at x2960 or [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ --------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------