Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 03 21:20:22 EST 2007 | davef
Comments are: * General purpose RTV (RTV-108) releases an acetic acid (vinegar) during cure and corrodes copper, brass and sensitive metals. It is therefore NOT for use in delicate electrical or electronic applications. However, there is an electrica
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 10 22:10:29 EST 2012 | doncattoni
Hello Austin, Sorry for the delayed response. There are different types of cures for conformal coating such as RTV which stands for Room Temperature Vulcanising which means they are cured by the humidity in the air. This type of cure does not need
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 21 11:43:03 EDT 2005 | davef
We understand the problem of trying to coat over RTV. We have seen the same problem with acrylic and urethane coatings not wanting to stick to RTV. Some acrylics seem to be worse than urethane. Since this is a new product, may be you could pot your
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 11 17:07:07 EST 2008 | blnorman
3145 is methoxy cure, so the cure by product is methanol.
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 22 21:29:05 EST 2005 | davef
Josh: Room Temperature Vulcanizing (RTV) is Dow Corning's trade name for it's family of silicone cure sealants. RTV is about the worst kind of coating there is. Its chemistry is highly ionic and it requires atmospheric humidity absorbed to "complete
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 31 14:07:24 EST 2007 | electronhose
Material, fumes, cured or uncured, all are suspect. Silicone gets on an operator's hands, that operator handles components ( even a day or more later ) silicone is transferred to the solder connections = contamination. Process and workcell control
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 11 12:02:47 EST 2010 | plaiming
We have temporarily switched to an RTV for the vibration reincforcement, but it is not compatible with acrylic conformal coating and we really do not want to switch conformal coatings to a silicone based. Additionally we are testing the product in h
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 25 10:21:49 EST 2010 | jdumont
My guess would be that the adhesive used on the dots contains silicone. We use 1B73 which is also acrylic and it hates silicone. We use silicone RTV to permanently mask around some connectors and unless its fully cured before coating it will cause l
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 20 19:08:15 EST 2007 | Peter
Hello, I would like to ask for opinion on an epoxy application. We apply RTV to bond and secure 2 electronic devices on a PCB. But after noticing the RTV bond breaking off during vibration test, our customer has specs in a 5min 2-part epoxy (made
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 20 20:26:54 EST 2007 | davef
Peter: The above link to the the picture of the assembly is broken. Comments are: * Yes, RTV is completely useless for applications like you describe. Epoxy is a much better choice. * Dave G, in an archived thread on SMTnet, talks about using 3M Jet
