i had a this problem many years ago and what we found was that during the assembling process our teflon insulator was expanding and causing us to not get the proper grounding connection from the shield to the connector. what we did to solve the problem was make all of our bends in the cable then run the unassembled cable through a heat cycle then cut the teflon insulator and the complete the assembly of the connector to the cable. there is also semi rigid cable available although i dont remember where to aquire it, where the insulator has pockets to avoid this expansion problem. ############################################################## TechNet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ############################################################## To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE TECHNET <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF TECHNET ############################################################## Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information. For the technical support contact Dmitriy Sklyar at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.311 ##############################################################