>Awhile back, there were some posts regarding the use of solder paste in attempt >to cause intentional shorts, effectively eliminating the need for a zero ohm >resistor to tie two nets together. I was wondering how many people have used >this method and what criteria did you follow? Any information pertaining to this >concept would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Todd, I have recently done some work modelling this situation, with a surface tension modelling tool called Evolver, in order to understand the volumes of solder over which a short is possible/inevitable. The results of this will be published shortly in Journal of Electronic Manufacturing. If anyone has any data which I could compare with the models I would be very interested. David Whalley