Electronics Forum | Wed May 26 14:01:18 EDT 1999 | Bill Schreiber
Dear Ricardo, We have a number of published articles on our web site. One of them is titled "Improving Screen Printing Yields" by Richard Clouthier of AMTX stencils (now Photo Stencil). This article appeared in EP&P magizine and also Asian Electron
Electronics Forum | Sat Mar 13 01:29:16 EST 1999 | Mike Konrad
Greetings Bill, My� Aren't we just a little sensitive! Isn't the purpose of this forum to educate, exchange ideas, provide alternative solutions??? Or is it an open-ended venue for the advertisement of one specific machine from one specific manuf
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 26 12:22:22 EST 1998 | Bill Schreiber
The Smart Sonic Stencil Cleaning Process has been very successful in cleaning misprinted ceramic substrates. We would be happy to test clean your product. Contact me toll free at (888) 499-7440. Bill Schreiber | We currently use an abrasive fiberg
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 07 13:26:25 EDT 2003 | billschreiber
Dear Yukim, You may want to make sure that your presolder cleaning processes will support the change to a new flux. Many chemistries are vertically oriented and will clean only a selected few types of solder pastes. If you find that a new cleaning
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 07 12:14:14 EDT 2004 | bschreiber
The pre-solder cleaning of misprinted PCBs can be a completely different experience from a post-solder application. While the paper that DaveF references is excellent, you may want to read the paper by Richard S. Clouthier, "SMT Stencil Cleaning: A
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 22 15:40:38 EST 2004 | Bill Schreiber
Hello Brent, I recommend that you read an article by Richard Clouthier, "SMT Stencil Cleaning: A Decision That Could Impact Production." It originally was published by EP&P. We keep a copy of it on our web site: http://www.smartsonic.com/article1.
Electronics Forum | Wed May 04 12:36:06 EDT 2005 | bschreiber
Hello Frank, Just a quick note regarding the use of your Smart Sonic Stencil Cleaning process for cleaning PCBs; if the boards are populated, some components my require an ultrasonic rinse with DI water as ultrasonics will deliver the wash solution
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 09 15:11:42 EST 2006 | bschreiber
This link will explain the cause of the delamination: http://www.smartsonic.com/ssonicfaq.html#4 You need to shorten the cleaning cycle and lower the temperature. Provide me with your mailing address and I will send you a sample of our 440-R SMT D
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 18 13:54:38 EST 2008 | bschreiber
Most stencil manufacturers use an automated stencil inspection system like our StencilScan AOI that compares the Gerber data directly to the stencil image. We provide the StencilScan AOI system to end users that wish to guarantee stencil / screen an
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 25 13:12:20 EST 2008 | bschreiber
Hello CarlN, Yes, StencilScan can reverse engineer a stencil, screen or a board. We just take a high resolution scan of the stencil/screen/board and the software does the rest. Another cool feature is the Assembly Module option for producing assem
