Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 07 11:39:39 EDT 2017 | swag
Two magic bullets help us greatly with fine pitch printing: 1) nano coatings (we use a DEK product) YES it really does work 2) temperature control in the printer (AC unit). Of course good quality stencil and proper cleaning of the stencil are im
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 22 11:10:27 EDT 2011 | ccouture
It's actually a "silane" according to the same article. Also, it "bonds" with the surface of the stencil. once bonded, it's not going anywhere. I'm not a chemist. I'm not promoting this product to be used on stencil. I'm just pointing out that what i
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 14 09:34:25 EDT 2017 | cyber_wolf
In my experience there is no need for wet wiping stencils. We run 0201'and micro BGA's daily with no issues. If you are having paste release issues, I would be looking at other things. Aperture area aspect ratio, aperture design, land design, sold
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 07 08:45:02 EDT 2017 | dleeper
In my experience with similar sized parts, the nano coatings (or what ever your supplier might call them) do help with repeatable paste release. How are you cleaning your stencils? A big red flag to me is that your stencil worked fine for the first
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 29 03:16:20 EDT 2018 | cannizzaro
It is recommended that the thickness of the stencil of 0.1mm, the steel mesh should be partially nano-coated. It is best not to dry easily, and the particles are not easy to be too large. I have tried ALLPCB for this kind of BGA in the past and they
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 22 14:10:19 EDT 2017 | slthomas
Just for the sake of passing along the information, the fine grained stencil provided zero improvement over the standard PhD stainless and was not nearly as helpful as the baked-on nano-coating. We probably won't be trying that again unless we go und
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 22 10:07:48 EDT 2012 | hussman
We chose the MPM over the DEK. We did real world comparison in our factory with both machines almost side by side last year. MPMs offer a real windows based software that basically takes the operator out of the equation. Besides the basic screen p
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 20 09:26:36 EDT 2013 | proceng1
I believe that Rain-X contains silicone and Nano-ProTek solution does not. I did speak with a field service guy for Nano-Protek and he told me the special coating test pen that they offer is just a sharpie with their logo on it. Thats how I test to
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
