Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 20 13:46:24 EDT 2011 | ccouture
200 PCB over 3 shifts now on Rain-X. No signs of contamination from the stuff. Yes, Rain-X, the stuff you buy at auto shop to treat the windshield so that the rain just rolls off the glass. Cost: ~$6 for 200ml, enough for ~100 stencils... I'm not pr
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 21 19:53:20 EDT 2011 | isd_jwendell
Using AIM N.C. paste, just ran 10 panels to test after applying Rain-X to the stencil (pre-clean with IPA). Printing and release were slightly better (maybe my imagination), but not a large difference. Stencil remained cleaner longer. I could not tel
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 07 11:24:21 EDT 2017 | slthomas
HI Tsvetan, Can you tell me what material your stencil was fabbed from? I have seen (from different suppliers) references to at least 3 different grain sizes of stainless for laser cut, plus electroformed nickel for laser cut, electroformed nickel,
Electronics Forum | Thu May 17 11:07:11 EDT 2012 | scottp
I don't have an opinion on nano coatings since I haven't tried them. Our suppliers keep pushing it so I'll eventually check it out. The reason I zeroed in on the FG foil is because I almost fell into that trap. Several years ago I wasn't aware the
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 19 13:09:48 EDT 2017 | slthomas
Thanks, all, for your responses. It's always helpful to know what everyone else is doing, whether to validate your own experience or to force you think in more detail. At this point we've determined that no amount of aperture design, material contr
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 19 09:41:30 EDT 2017 | sumote
Steve, The 4 things I would do, and in this order: 1. Clean your stencil with stencil cleaner wipes after it comes out of the stencil cleaner. I like MicroCare ProClean (MCC-PROWR). I will even saturate the wipe with a bit of isopropal just till
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