Ruben, We use large quantities of wavesoldering pallets here. I hope your pallets are not stainless steel. They are good heat sinks and take forever to cool. We have fans over the edge handling conveyors (top and bottom) between the soldering machine and further processing. With composite pallets, we have no thermal problems at the next operation.. Even without fans, the composite pallets can be touched within 10 seconds of wave exit, but not for long. Just don't touch any metal fixtures that early....ouch ARIC PARR Sr. Manufacturing Engineer Eaton Corp 1400 S. Livernois P. O. Box 5020 Rochester Hills, Mi 48308-5020 [log in to unmask] 248 608 7780 Fax: 248 656 2242 ------------- Original Text From: C=US/A=INTERNET/DDA=ID/TechNet(a)IPC.ORG, on 2/2/99 8:13 AM: To: Aric Parr@01635@Lectron_RH, EatonWHQ@CorpMail@WHQCleveOH[C=US/A=INTERNET/DDA=ID/TechNet(a)IPC.ORG] I am currently using wave soldering carriers for some of my modules at wave solder. We need to use them in order to protect the contact gold fingers. We are currently using conductive cooling system by submerging them in water but anyhow at the moment of using them they are still hot and wet. Is there any possibility of using convective methods and some kind of rolling conveyors or something? Please help me out Ruben ################################################################ 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 ################################################################