Frank I have no experience with palladium silver on leadless ceramic components but my experience with palladium on other components tells me that wetting and or wetting time could be a serious issue here. Do the units Charles is attaching have a palladium silver finish? "nothing wets like water, and nothing solders like solder" Russ -----Original Message----- From: [log in to unmask] Date: Friday, August 21, 1998 11:53 PM Subject: Re: [TN] Help needed: Attaching leadless ceramic smd >Russ, > >What has been your experience with palladium silver ceramic leadless packages? > >Frank ################################################################ 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's web site (http://www.ipc.org) "On-Line Services" section for additional information. For technical support contact Hugo Scaramuzza at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.312 ################################################################