FYI They (purchasing) did not believe the solderability testing so they had us build up boards anyway. When the boards passed test they said there was no problem with the boards. We all know this is not accurrate, because if you put enough solder down you can mask off just about any dewetting problem out there. Believe me I have already pondered the worse case senerio! Regards, Kathy Palumbo -----Original Message----- From: Franklin [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 12:20 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [TN] Dewetting Issues Kathy, Why would you be concerned with 'long term solderability' issues when you have this initial solderability condition to deal with? Seems to me the argument should be the 'here and now', and not the 'what if'. All I know about reliability studies are those I have first hand experience with, and that being as I wrote above, if they fail from the beginning, they will not get any better sitting on a shelf. <smile> Something to ponder. Franklin D Asbell, CQA Network Circuits, Inc. Irving, Texas ############################################################## TechNet Mail List 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 web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information. If you need assistance - contact Gayatri Sardeshpande at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5365 ############################################################## ############################################################## TechNet Mail List 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 web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information. If you need assistance - contact Gayatri Sardeshpande at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5365 ##############################################################