| I have a component that is glue cured on the bottom of a pcb. The component is a 1206 size jumper. It is made up of iron/nickel alloy. The problem I am having is that the part will fall off the board during wave solder. Is the component not able to withstand all the heat of the solder pot being that it is a solid metal material? Any ideas or solutions would be appreciated. | Rob Williams | Rwill@westell.com Rob, If you're placing a jumper between two pads, and it keeps falling off, it sounds like it might be easier to get the boards reworked before you populate them. I've used this outfit in New Hampshire that puts down conductive traces on boards pre-assembly. You have your board shop drop ship the boards to them, they put down extra traces or cut existing ones, and ship the boards on to you. It's like a five day turn time. They can even put down extra SMT pads if you need them. I've used them several times in the past five years, and they do pretty decent waork at pretty reasonable prices. And I've done all kinds of reliabilty tests on the added circuits in which they fared pretty well. E-mail me if you want more info. Not a solution, but a possible alternative, Chrys
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