Electronics Forum | Sat Dec 17 04:45:43 EST 2005 | aswsteven
Hi Guys My is in line system, printer DEK 265 stencil 4 mil only have to mount 20 components but giving me problem. After a month or so on this line still having paste problem about 1.5day need to change new paste. We are using whole jar 250g but do
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 13 09:18:06 EST 2006 | sumxp
Certain paste mfg specify 6 hours paste thawing time to normalize the temperature. I am using solder paste softerner to spin the paste taken out from fridge for 9 minutes and measure the paste temperature in jar.It is around 26'c(same as the ambient
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 20 08:36:07 EST 2008 | jdumont
Wanted to get this out there to get a feel for what everyone is doing with their paste after they crack the original seal. The life clock obviously doesn't stop once its opened and at room temp so one cannot solely go by stencil life alone....I imagi
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 17 09:39:07 EDT 2009 | rkevin
I received my sample jar of NC257-2 SAC305 from Aim, and while that may have been true about older Aim paste formulations, this stuff prints and reflows better than anything I have tried and more importantly there were practically no voids on a 256 B
Electronics Forum | Tue May 11 10:58:51 EDT 2010 | davef
Paste for dispensing differs significantly from paste for printing. [B Toleno Henkel Loctite]. So, if you compare paste characteristics: Characteristic of paste||Printable ||Dispensable Viscosity [million centipoise]||0.8 to 1||0.2 to 0.4 Metal cont
Electronics Forum | Thu May 13 01:41:31 EDT 2010 | nrw
Thank you everyone, I realise the problems now and the whole exercise might not be worth the money saved, versus just throwing out the leftover paste. I am based in Australia, so the number of players in this market is small and they know it. The pr
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 19 15:04:10 EDT 2011 | ccouture
Seika make a solder paste recycling unit that will melt solder paste and separate the solder from the flux. You end-up with liquid flux in a jar and a block of solid solder, which you could re-use in a solder wave if the type is the same.
Electronics Forum | Thu May 10 15:32:45 EDT 2012 | 14367
We are having a lot of tomb stoning with this no clean solder paste. It's limited to larger, complex boards, affecting 0603 ferrite beads, capacitors and SOT23s. It was suggested that paste removed from a stencil should not be put back in it's origin
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 04 14:16:32 EST 2012 | eniac
AIM can give a good result, I tried the solder paste from many manufacturer - AIM, Kester, Indium, Koki, Alpha Metals, Heraeus - but I stopped my choice at Kester. For example, right now I have EM907 with date of manufacture in february 2010 (it's ju
Electronics Forum | Tue May 14 15:21:07 EDT 2013 | Keith Cathcart
I've seen a couple of customers create a jar dispenser similar to the ones you can buy for beverage cans. See this link for the examples used for beverage cans http://www.meijer.com/shop/chrome-organization-kitchen-storage.jsp Hope this helps. Kei
