Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 21 12:36:52 EST 2022 | stephendo
Like I said a lot of people don't tape the gold fingers the first time they run them. After that they make sure the fingers get taped up because solder gets places you don't think it does and once it touches gold, that gold is contaminated. How do y
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 09 08:20:56 EDT 2006 | kehoem@bellsouth.net
We have a board calling out for 50 micro-inches of nickel over 30 micro-inches of gold. This is a solid gold board on Rogers material. ENIG cannot be deposited that thick right? Electroplated gold (we thought) was usually 35-50 micro-inches and was
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 13 20:17:35 EST 1998 | Chuck Garth
| | I believe that gold fingers on my circuit boards are being | | contaminated and need to clean them with some chemical | | solution. Any recommendations. | | | Chuck: What is the type and source of your contamination? Dave F | We are using a s
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 14 06:42:38 EST 2004 | tommy
We see spattered(spitting of flux or solder to nearby area) solder/flux on gold fingers.We view the gold fingers area under 30x before reflow and it is cleaned but after reflow we see flux droplets or solder on gold fingers. We tried to changed a new
Electronics Forum | Fri May 08 15:12:23 EDT 1998 | Ryan Jennens
I am running boards with gold fingers on a pallet for masking purposes. The pallets worked fine for a while but know the gold fingers are getting solder on them. We have tried everythin: new pallets, cleaning the pallet and board to be sure there
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 11 14:32:44 EST 2000 | Ashok Dhawan
I am looking for a Masking tape for Gold fingers on a PCB . It should not leave any residue on reflow soldering ( 220 deg c). Currently, I am using Kapton tape with Silicon adhesive. It is leaving minute quantities of residue? The fingers are al
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 01 18:42:23 EDT 2018 | deanm
How close are your SMT pads to the gold fingers? Can you supply a photo?
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 22 10:24:23 EST 2014 | cyber_wolf
No matter how good your process is, you will get solder on the gold fingers/lands unless they are protected. We have proven that solder will get on the gold fingers in the reflow oven. How that happens....we arent't 100% sure...there are a lot of the
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 13 08:04:43 EDT 2007 | davef
Search the fine SMTnet Archives [on gold finger], while you're waiting for others to reply. For instance: http://www.smtnet.com/forums/Index.cfm?CFApp=1&Message_ID=42759
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 13 13:49:16 EST 2017 | slthomas
Preemptively you can apply Kapton tape to protect the gold fingers during reflow. I think that's what most people do. After the fact, there are services available to clean them up but as it was described in another thread here, it is not in-expensiv
