Homebrew PCBs

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Leslie Newell wrote:

> Immersion silver works great if you use it fairly quickly. However if
> the boards stand for more than a month or so, the silver oxidises and
> they become quite difficult to solder.

Incidentally, I'm just about to (once I've thoroughly checked the PCB
layout for correctness!) send off a 4 layer PCB to PCB Train. How does
immersion silver hold up on edge connectors? I think it's the only plating
they offer for 4 layer boards.