Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 21 16:32:03 EST 2001 | mparker
The root cause is dependant on the type of solder "splash", ball, whatever, that you are seeing post reflow. If it is smears, then cleaning the stencil underside is probably the answer. Are you using automatic wipers? How many print cycles between w
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 20 05:32:39 EDT 2001 | dougie
Hi, I've just splashed out �60 on IPC-A-600F trying to find out the formula for measuring the bow and twist of raw PCB's. Much to my dismay there are 10 lines on the subject in the whole standard. Worse still is that it tells me nothing I don't alre
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 28 10:58:28 EDT 2001 | brownsj
The question is are you talking of a reflow or wavesolder process. If your talking reflow I used to use a stepped stencil to ensure I had sufficient paste and then make a double pass with my squeegees. First pass with a 45 degree rubber squeegee to f
Electronics Forum | Mon May 18 17:59:06 EDT 1998 | Richard Jackson
I've tried every thing I can think of. Do you have any Ideas? What I have is micro balls on the gold fingers of panelize boards. These balls only appear on the gold finger. Or at least I can only find them on the gold fingers. What I have tried so
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 04 12:54:00 EDT 2002 | Bob
Hi, We are manufacturing a small PCB with large areas of gold plating. We experience from time to time what appear to be solder splashes on the gold areas. I do not believe the contamination to be from "outgassing" due to the distance from the dep
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 02 12:52:40 EST 2002 | slthomas
We're trying a selective soldering pallet for the first time with mixed reviews. Are solder balls a prevalent problem with this process? Most of them seem to correspond with pallet wall locations....is it too much turbulence from the rotary chip wav
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 11 10:19:00 EST 2003 | yngwie
We ran doublesided SMT thru Glue and Wave process before and but faced a lot of skip solder. Then the customer told us that they have similar problem when they ran the board so what they did was they print the paste-dispense the glue- place the comp
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 03 09:11:25 EST 2005 | russ
I wouldn't raise the temps just slow the conveyor, You need to get the PCB "soaked in". It seems as if you are applying more thermal energy than the PCB can accept in all areas. Does this oven have convection heating? Hopefully so. I have found t
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 10 07:22:48 EDT 2007 | davef
Q1. Is kapton tape an industry accepted way of protecting gold pads from solder splashes? A1. No. It is more accepted to resolve the reason behind the solder splats, so that the added labor and cost of taping is eliminated. Search the fine SMTnet Arc
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 21 13:40:00 EST 2014 | rgduval
If you're using the Kapton tape to protect the gold fingers from solder splatter, my first instinct is to say,yes, you do need it. I've had the pleasure of paying to have gold fingers reworked in the past. It is not in-expensive; certainly not equa
