Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 08 12:32:12 EDT 2022 | jblundon
I have a Komax Iota 330. It's a great machine. Accurate, fast, easy to service. We cut plastic shrink tubing as small as 1/8" diameter, plastic convoluted wire loom, metal mesh wire loom, plastic air line, and more. We easily process more than one mi
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 09 17:00:45 EDT 1998 | Ryan Jennens
Can anybody tell me what to do with IC tubes when we are done with them? Plastics companies want tons and we only generate about one hundred pounds a month (guess). We have been throwing them out...
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 09 20:10:28 EDT 1998 | Kathy Palumbo
| Can anybody tell me what to do with IC tubes when we are | done with them? Plastics companies want tons and we only | generate about one hundred pounds a month (guess). We | have been throwing them out... I got the recycling company to drop off
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 01 04:07:31 EDT 1999 | Brian
| Recently, our solder dross reclaimer refused to take our | used solder paste tubes. He said the small percent of paste | remaining in the tube is now considered hazardous waste. I'm interested in advice on how others are disposing of this "hazardou
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 26 03:48:44 EDT 2008 | eyalg
Does anyone know if the IPC 610 standard call for baking bare boards (PWB) prior assembly? Note: I am talking about bare boars only and NOT plastic packages components, Regards. Eyal Green
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 22 10:38:30 EST 2002 | slthomas
The follwing is from the Technet archives, per IPC's Jack Crawford. I dug it up during some investigation of a supplier's issues with humidity in an Asian plant: There is support for this in IPD-HDBK-001 w/Amendment 1 Handbook and Guide to Suppleme
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 24 17:30:40 EDT 2007 | jmelson
Oh, for a second there I thought it was 257 C, not F. Solder temperature! Still, one WEEK at 257 F seems way extreme. Maybe this is to bake out a part that has been underwater for a week. Is this a military part? I can't imagine any commercial-g
Electronics Forum | Sat Aug 25 08:39:15 EDT 2007 | gsala
If plastic Carrier Tape (CT)/ emboss tape, is made by: a)Polycarbonate material, it can withstand temperature around 120C� or may be more mantaining original dimension. b)Polystirene material, at max 45�C-50C� the CT starts to change dimensions and
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 10 16:14:17 EST 2005 | fmonette
Hi Gary, With plastic BGAs it is more difficult to remove the trapped moisture because of ground planes in the substrate. If your parts have been sitting around for a long time they may be soaked with moisture and in some cases the 48 hours bake cy
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 10 11:08:39 EST 2005 | mrgman9999
We are having a problem with popcorning of a plastic BGA that has been under careful humidity control. We have had problems in the past and some have been related to too much trapped internal solvents from the die attach epoxy. We did a life time b