Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 29 06:26:36 EDT 2006 | AR
Hi Slaine, The terminations are still present on the component but all the solder (including the pad finish) has coalesced on to the terminations. The termination that normally is shiny and bright in colour has turned matte grey on that zone where t
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 18 04:03:30 EST 2006 | greg york
Good solvent wipe will normally show some discoloration of the same colour as resist, but not scientific enough as you cant gauge the amount coming off, ideally none. But is an indicator of the issue. I have been meaning to do a swab with an indicato
Electronics Forum | Sat Feb 20 09:56:22 EST 1999 | Tufty
| We are in the process of getting into no-clean paste and fluxes. One important issue in this is sodler balling. I have heard some people say that having a matte finish would help in having lesser solder balls and that the solder balls would not b
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 22 18:07:38 EDT 1999 | Tom B.
| On various PCB's after building processes,such as reflow, flowsolder and wash. The soldermask on the PCB's have become discoloured, like a 'marble' effect all along the solder side of the board, it is lighter in contrast than normal, although when
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 31 11:33:51 EDT 2003 | yngwie
I faced problem over connecter's pin that were hot air soldered. This connector has 168 pins ( similar to the straddle connector ). The process is to apply the flux onto the connector's J-leads, and the hot air pencil were then ran thru' the leads to
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 03 17:00:20 EST 2008 | davef
Recommended procedure for soldering stainless steel [Atlas Steels Australia]: * Surfaces must be clean and free of oxidation. * A rough surface improves adherence of the solder, so roughening with grinding wheel, file or coarse abrasive paper is reco
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 22 20:26:39 EDT 1999 | Dave F
| | On various PCB's after building processes,such as reflow, flowsolder and wash. The soldermask on the PCB's have become discoloured, like a 'marble' effect all along the solder side of the board, it is lighter in contrast than normal, although whe
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 12 11:35:27 EDT 2004 | Pierre RICHARD
Here are some answers to my questions after a good research. I also added more definitions that could help understand this esoteric language used in assembly, specially surrounding fluxes and their use. In blue italics are comments and extracts from
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 05 12:25:17 EDT 2001 | Adam
The Solderballs are on the botton side of the board.The solderballs are concentrated around through hole edge connectors, which have a Tin/lead finish and have lead pitch of 2.5mm, on top of this, random solderballs are occuring around test points. T
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 10 15:47:34 EDT 1999 | John Thorup
| | | | | I am having cleaning problems when processing PCB's which have | | | | | TAIYO solder mask on them. After processing, hand soldering and | | | | | cleaning, a sticky residue is remains, resulting in a cosmetically poor finish with tide mark
