I am trying to get a feel for the types of boards manufactured and their requirements. The IPC TMRC has domne a good job in putting a lot of this information together in regards to SMT, flex circuits, hole size and #, etc. What I want to know from the people who fabricate boards, what percentage of those boards have: Nickel gold finger tabs Other contact areas with finsihed with nickel gold What perdcentage of contact areas are finished with other surfaces What are these other contact surfaces (Tin, Solder, SnNi, etc) Your help woulrd be appreciated Thanks Bruce Stacy Lucent Technologies ################################################################ 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 ################################################################