Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 09 20:48:12 EDT 2021 | laserstencils
I do not know of a way to measure the nano-coating. However, it is easy to check if it is still on the stencil. Simply use a 'sharpe' pen and try and mark the bottom (PCB) side near any openings. If it easily marks, then the nano is no longer present
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 20 18:08:49 EDT 2021 | emeto
Nowadays I cut everything with nano-coat. it does improve release and adds 25% to the stencil price. Adds a little more time to cure the coat.
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 29 15:27:54 EST 2015 | markhoch
I agree with SWAG on this. Nano Coatings make a big difference on paste release. I found when placed on the topside of the stencil, it also helps to reduce stencil wear, though others complained that it affected the solder roll, so most stencil house
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
