Quoting Giles Honeycutt : > Neil, > I got my first stencil from http://www.stencilsunlimited.com/ > I called and talked the the guy who runs it, he helped me out a lot. > ... I spoke with a lady there a few days ago, but the best answer I got was to explain it in comments. That leaves a lot of room for problems. Quickstencil was similar. > Some of the questions I left to him was, how thick, and the over/under. > Also, he fixed a couple of things I did not know to do, like a big pad > for a regulator, he sectioned into 4 pads as apposed to one large pad > that could have problems with the squeegee. Similar questions to mine. I found another stencil source today that does kapton stencils for $25 (ohararp.com), and I figured I've give it a shot, so I can tinker with vacuum placement and reflow profiles for now. The guy there (Ryan) mentioned the same thing about splitting up larger pads to help squeegeeing. He said that for my major question, I should put it in on the cream layer (as Wouter suggested), and let him know that those should be left exactly that size. Cheers, -Neil. > Best regards, > Giles Honeycutt > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist