Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 17 19:43:43 EDT 1998 | Bill Schreiber
Smart Sonic has a new Model 2003 Stencil Cleaner that is designed to clean SMD adhesives, solder paste and post solder flux residue from wave solder pallets, oven air amplifiers, etc. all in the same system at the same time with the same chemistry. C
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 01 11:08:03 EST 1998 | Bill Schreiber
Smart Sonic's 440-R SMT Detergent cleans all types of solder paste, wet SMD adhesives and post solder flux residue from misprinted PCBs, stencils and tooling. 440-R SMT Detergent is non hazardous and is certified by the Air Quality Management Distri
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 26 15:27:07 EST 2001 | johnspade
Hi Yannick, Smart Sonic has just introduced the "Assembly Module" to their StencilScan AOI software package. By adding the Assembly Module to StencilScan AOI, one workstation allows you to inspect and compare the stencil to the PCB and Gerber data a
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 | 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
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 25 16:40:24 EDT 2008 | bschreiber
As I am certain you have discovered, no clean solder paste has removed most inline cleaners from the production floor and the pallets that were cleaned simultaneously with the PCBs are now accumulating flux residue. Permali, the maker of Durostone
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 22 13:10:51 EDT 2008 | bschreiber
The folowing articles are available at: http://www.smartsonic.com/article.html "Why Not Ultrasonic Cleaning?" by William Kenyon "Damage-Free Ultrasonically-Assisted Cleaning of Printed Circuit Assemblies" - by B.P. Richards et al "Does Ultrason
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 06 12:49:28 EST 2000 | Steve Thomas
That's how ours works...has a basket underneath the stencil hanger that we drop our squeegees into...it also handles misprints fairly well. It's a factory option for the SmartSonic.....dunno about other makes.
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 03 13:18:31 EST 2000 | Bill Schreiber
Smart Sonic's Web Site is www.smartsonic.com Tel: 1(800) 906-440-R Fax: 1(818) 909-6409
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 26 11:52:17 EDT 2000 | Steve Thomas
I knew I was forgetting something. We use Smart Sonic 440-R, a mildly alkaline (ph 12.4 in the concentrate, we dilute to about 10%) detergent that they obviously recommend for use.
