Hello Glenn, Your plating supplier should have an additive to combat your fears. Regards, Lenny Kurup On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, glenn pelkey wrote: > We are planning on running cyanide-based, citrate buffered, > electroplating bath on an intermittent basis for microlelectronics > manufacturing. I understand that there may be a problem with bacteria, > algae or other microbial contamination if the bath is left stagnant for > extended lengths of time. Does anyone have suggestions as how to put > the bath in a "standby mode" for several weeks at a time and prevent > this from occurring? > > Thanks for any input. > > Glenn Pelkey > [log in to unmask] > [log in to unmask] > Maxtek Components Corp. > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > ################################################################ > 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 > ################################################################ > > ################################################################ 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 ################################################################