Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 14 22:48:06 EST 2006 | Cal Kolokoy
That is a tough situation and a tough answer for us SMT forum participants. After all, most of us are in the business of placing and soldering components to circuit boards, and you know the saying; you can't make solder joints with an unsolderable su
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 23 21:35:43 EST 2006 | Wave Master Larry
Eutectic is were the deltas of the oven melt the paste. At least that what the maintenence guy tells me but hes alway gooped up on some goop, so who really nows. No lead is simple. With all the cell phones you guys by nowadays, the gabage heaps ar
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 24 15:40:23 EST 2006 | Gilligan
Novemer 13, 2001, minutes from the JG-PP Lead-Free Solder project: http://www.jgpp.com/projects/lead_free_soldering/minutes/01novminutes.pdf It seems to me, that although everything was discussed before hand, it wound up being the "Let's do it and
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 17 22:54:51 EDT 2006 | Darby
Short answer is - not really. According to the manual in Chapter 1-5 Supply devices (Feeders) overview "There are also available an 8mm tape feeder which handles 1005(0402) square chips". I have never seen one. The problem is that even an H nozzle is
Electronics Forum | Wed May 24 15:59:34 EDT 2006 | JohnM
I have a product with mixed in Pb free and Pb BGAs. I decide to use SnPb paste with Pb free reflow profile to make it work for both types of BGA. Do I have a reliability solder joint issue by using this method? How is your opinion on this case? Can
Electronics Forum | Thu May 25 11:31:52 EDT 2006 | muse95
Patrick, I believe you are mistaken about this being a myth. Many component manufacturers changed more than plating to make their component withstand higher temps. Some changed mold compounds, others changed plastic types used. Many of these change
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 05 11:37:38 EDT 2006 | dougs
I my last company i had to battle all the time for tooling to set up jobs, i asked the product engineering manager to include extra panels in the costs for NPI to be used as reflow profiling panels, he told me they had never needed these before and t
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 10 16:00:43 EDT 2006 | samir
QE's are the guys that sit in meetings asking the process guys --- "Uhhmmmm....my pie chart here says that we have 11 solder shorts on U1 for the week. WHAT'RE YOU GONNA DO ABOUT IT?" Unfortunately, most QE's dress nice, are tall, have gelled slic
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 12 23:29:23 EDT 2006 | KEN
Ah yes Mechanical Engineers. My previous company hired one Fresh out of College. Ink was still wet on his B.S. degree when he entered the shop. I passed by his desk. He had a CAD drawing on the monitor which he was feverously working on. It showe
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 13 00:45:15 EDT 2006 | donb
Haha, I have so many of these stories... where to start? My favourite was a few years back, we had a new mechanical engineer fresh out of university. As a part of his new role, he was purchasing tools & equipment for the maintenance workshop. After
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