check with your vendor if it is intended for soldering or silver epoxy mount... On Aug 28, 2017, at 10:37 AM, Vargas, Stephen M wrote: > Good morning: > > We've experienced some soldering difficulties with small 0402 > inductors using a silver palladium platinum glass plating. Our > application is a 63/37 process and we find that these parts shift > randomly through our reflow oven and the overall soldering is less > than optimum. The part is available in a more robust plating, but > the cost impact is absurd. I'm wondering if others have run into > similar problems with this finish and why the difficulty in > soldering these parts. Thanks in advance. > > Regards, > Steve Vargas