Mike, The topic of splitting the forum into more focussed areas has arisen before. The main driver is that people have tons of e-mail and delete 90% of the messages. I would suggest that it is beneficial to keep it one forum for the cross fertilization of ideas. I think it is useful for people in a wave soldering area to understand what is going on in the fabrication area. Understanding plating issues might help you understand why you have some difficulties with existing designs. I regularly deal with people who are knowledgable aobut their particular areas, but cannot adopt a view of the entire manufacturing process. A case of not seeing the forest for the trees. For myself, I learn lots of things about metallurgy (thanks Hillman) board fabrication (thanks Hoover and Cupples) and many other topics that I would not have gotten if the forum were segmented. Anyway, that's my two cents worth. Doug Pauls CSL