Helloooo Technet: I hope everybody had a nice weekend... We've been attempting to solder a surface mount capacitor with limited success, the metallization dissolves away. It turns out that the terminations are 300 microinches of Platinum/Gold covered with 15 microinches of gold. Is this type of finish suitable for soldering? (hand or reflow?) How would the reliability compare with a more standard finish like a nickel barrier layer followed by gold? Thanks in advance, Jim Marsico ################################################################ 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 ################################################################