Terry: Can you provide more information on your machine setup, flux, thermals, . . . etc... ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: ASSY: Gold contamination after wave soldering? Author: [log in to unmask] (Terry Huddeston) at INTERNET Date: 7/26/96 9:50 AM Received: from ittingw.itt.com [151.190.53.250] by saturn.acdin.itt.com with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 09:49 -0500 Received: from ipc.org by simon.ipc.org via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/940406.SGI) id JAA14210; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 09:42:11 -0700 Resent-Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 09:42:11 -0700 Received: by ipc.org (Smail3.1.28.1 #2) id m0ujnmq-0000QaC; Fri, 26 Jul 96 09:22 CDT Resent-Sender: [log in to unmask] Old-Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]> Message-Id: <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 10:45:31 -0700 From: Terry Huddeston <[log in to unmask]> X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5a (Win16; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Tech Net <[log in to unmask]> Subject: ASSY: Gold contamination after wave soldering? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-Id: <"8MiI33.0.tHH.LID-n"@ipc> Resent-From: [log in to unmask] X-Mailing-List: <[log in to unmask]> archive/latest/5361 X-Loop: [log in to unmask] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [log in to unmask] Could anyone out there help with the explaination of why after wave soldering that there will appear a gold film mainly on top of the PWB? Some of our inspectors are concerned and question what this substance is? Thanks for any help on this subject. Terry Huddleston Teledyne Lewisburg *************************************************************************** * TechNet mail list is provided as a service by IPC using SmartList v3.05 * *************************************************************************** * To unsubscribe from this list at any time, send a message to: * * [log in to unmask] with <subject: unsubscribe> and no text. * *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** * TechNet mail list is provided as a service by IPC using SmartList v3.05 * *************************************************************************** * To unsubscribe from this list at any time, send a message to: * * [log in to unmask] with <subject: unsubscribe> and no text. * ***************************************************************************