Greets How about a relatively non-technical arguement to chew on? For years we have procured pwb's to the mil- or ipc-d 275 rules from several very reputable suppliers. All the boards are delivered with a 1 to 2 inch wide manufacturing panel surrounding the board, which is routed off after we complete assembly. In all cases, the shops have regarded this panelized board as "the board" and have placed the test coupons one-half inch from the"the board", as the spec requires. We have always concurred with this, as we didn't particularly want our manufacturing panel cut up to remove coupons, and we understand that this is pretty much industry practice, and also feel that having the coupon one inch closer to the circuitry makes no real dif. Now, another faction of my company with a more purist attitude tells me none of my boards are spec compliant because of coupon placement. We have already gone to the needless trouble and expense of modifying drawing notes to allow this condition, so I'm not in a panic, but I'd still like the decision from the jury. Thoughts? Thanks Ralph ################################################################ 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 ################################################################