Electronics Forum | Tue May 29 20:26:38 EDT 2001 | davef
I never heard anyone say anything about looking for telecom wear surface spec, what point did I miss? Have you contacted the folk at old Bell Labs [http://www.bell-labs.com Er, whatever they're called now a days?] From a different perspective, we
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 27 12:16:19 EST 2007 | wavemasterlarry
hahaha! LISTEN, everyone knows that oven get dirty. They need periodic cleaning. So if you run lead boards thru your oven you will get lead dust and residue in you're oven. If you want to be truely lead free you need to get all the lead outta of
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 14 20:13:40 EDT 2014 | davef
So, someone is going to get a chance to buy a nice and shiny oven, eh? Summary from my notes of old thread on SMTnet: Some people melt sugar and use that solution to clean cooked-on flux residue. Dissolve sugar into warm water, spray it on the area t
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 28 20:31:48 EST 1999 | Jim
Justin, I have a customer who is considering changing from TH to SMT, but his preliminary reliability testing yielded solder joint failures, because his product must endure severe temperature swings. He can't change to an expensive substrate, or he'
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 11 16:28:17 EST 2001 | genny
Our co. is thinking of moving to smocks, but we aren't there yet. However, I can understand why we might want to. Have you ever seen the static buildup on a wool sweater or a polar fleece vest after rubbing against a chair all day in a cold dry pra
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 30 02:58:55 EST 2004 | Grant Petty
Hi, Thanks for the ideas. With the solder mask curing problems, can you normally wipe off the white residue, as we can do this on our boards with our fingers. It's almost like the surface of the board has a "wet dried up" look to it, and it's a smok
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 24 05:57:31 EST 2004 | chad
If you're using tooling pins, you may check to see that they do not have wear on the sides from boards repeatedly rubbing against them. I have seen this problem several times, you may give it a look. If you're not using them, I'd suggest that you gi
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 26 11:14:50 EDT 2006 | FredC
Are these covers repacements for the tape guides? If so in retipping many thousands of cp6 nozzles we see that the window in the tape guide is often miscentered and the needle tip rubs on the same place every time it picks. I expect the miscentered g
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 11 12:37:56 EDT 2006 | realchunks
Rob is right. ESD flooring is "Conductive" which means it can drain ESD from the body. But if you have an insulated shoe, it does not good, the ESD remains on the body. Now if you wear a smock, then you can rub ballons in your hair and touch any
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 11 02:35:56 EDT 2008 | pickyplacer
Hi, we have to print a serial barcode on a low volume PCB. For another module we just used our laser printer and cut the labels to size. However, those laser labels are easy to rub off, and the new labels are much smaller. What is best to use for
