One of our Engineers has asked me to pass on a question. How does the corrosion resistance of Electroless gold over Nickel (gold thickness of around 7 microinch) compare to horizontal HASL? The target environment is a marine type environment (salt spray). The customer does not wish to conformally coat the end product. If anyone has any experience or data in this area I would be most grateful. Regards Evan Evan Jones Manufacturing Engineer Bluegum Technology Ph 61 3 5720 2539 Fax 61 3 5720 2412 Email [log in to unmask] ################################################################ TechNet E-Mail Forum 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://jefry.ipc.org/forum.htm) for additional information. For the technical support contact Dmitriy Sklyar at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.311 ################################################################