Electronics Forum | Sat Jan 23 16:07:20 EST 1999 | Steve Gregory
| hi, | i am working towards developing a no-clean process for a customer at contract manufacturing facility. the assemblies have gold fingers on them. these are masked to prevent from any damage to them during reflow soldering. the earlier proces
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 18 11:17:40 EDT 2001 | Howie
The adhesive type is the problem generally - latex adhesives used are not compatible with the silicone. Humiseal offer silicone compatible tapes & dots although they are quite expensive. I found a 3M product which is compatible with silicone based co
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 27 20:34:13 EST 1999 | parag palshikar
| | hi, | | i am working towards developing a no-clean process for a customer at contract manufacturing facility. the assemblies have gold fingers on them. these are masked to prevent from any damage to them during reflow soldering. the earlier pr
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 09 16:58:30 EST 2001 | davef
Go for it!!! You were unspecific, but adding mask to a completed board could cause: * Increased paste thickness, if you have double thickness of solder mask. * Wrinkled and lifted solder mask under the component, if the solderability protection of
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 14 06:00:49 EDT 1999 | Graham Naisbitt
The latex should not influence your closed-loop filtration - unless of course it falls off during cleaning. The issue would be with water soluble materials. As Dave (hi Dave) said, the clay based version of these will clog/blind/knacker your carbon
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 14 23:19:25 EDT 1999 | Dennis O'Donnell
Water soluble masks are great in my book. After having used the latex type, I found that the water soluble will save a lot of time. I dont't use a closed loop system, but I do have a filter on my discharge line. I have not experienced any filter c
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 01 07:41:01 EST 2018 | dontfeedphils
Interesting, never heard of using wax as a coating mask. Not sure how well the AR coating would hold up to a hot alkaline wash (unless you have experience with it), but that stuff usually starts to flake off/de-wet if you just look at it wrong. I'm
Electronics Forum | Sun Sep 08 15:41:30 EDT 2013 | rodcr
I read an article about signal integrity losses and ENIG applied to all of the traces on the board. Doesn't solder mask protect the traces? Why would you need ENIG on the entire board?
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 02 21:24:27 EST 2000 | Dave F
Glen: As I mention in an earlier response in this thread, I think someone at Steve's plant (or may be in his packaging spec for the fabs) is doing something to leave a residue, but I'm also thinking solder mask ... ENIG can be applied before or aft
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 02 21:24:27 EST 2000 | Dave F
Glen: As I mention in an earlier response in this thread, I think someone at Steve's plant (or may be in his packaging spec for the fabs) is doing something to leave a residue, but I'm also thinking solder mask ... ENIG can be applied before or aft
