Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 26 05:02:33 EDT 1999 | Wolfgang Busko
| | We are going to smt ic's on the component side of our pcb's. | | The problem is we are going to have to do this by hand. | | We have a hot air station and vac pencil, but How reliable is this process. | | We've tried it on proto's and had some sh
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 29 07:37:45 EDT 2012 | davef
The current discussion about solder fountains has to do with copper dissolution. Broadly, copper dissolution is the weakening of copper traces where a trace and a barrel plating intersect due a loss of the copper into the solder. Longer contact time
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 23 20:23:58 EDT 1999 | Dave F
Jackie's posting recently and responses to it got me to dondering. First, recollecting, we bought an IR rework station a couple million years ago. It had a IR source on a stand, a bunch of lenses, and Reynolds aluminum foil for shielding near-by co
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 28 08:55:21 EDT 1999 | Earl Moon
| | | | | | | | | | | Hiya, | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Could anyone please suggest recommended manufacturers of | | | | | | | | | | | IR rework stations for the removal of various SMT comps. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 03 20:45:28 EST 2000 | Gary
I have worked with the PDR type rework station on and off for 12 years and have found that the IR can offer a lot of advantages over hot air. As was mentioned the lack of nozzels is a great advantage. The back heater takes a while to warm up but on
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 10 13:05:57 EDT 1999 | ScottM
| Folk's, | | I'm looking for some helpful suggestions for reworking wave soldered bottomside components that have been glued. | I'm not a fan of the twist and break approach and as some of them either have a double dot or a slot configuration this
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 11 19:38:44 EST 2011 | hegemon
There are a number of manufacturers of Benchtop Hot air stations. For what you are describing, look at Hakko as well as A.P.E. (if they are still around, they made a great little machine called a ?Chipmaster?, and if you added preheat, I think you
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 27 12:19:19 EDT 1999 | John
| | | Jackie's posting recently and responses to it got me to dondering. First, recollecting, we bought an IR rework station a couple million years ago. It had a IR source on a stand, a bunch of lenses, and Reynolds aluminum foil for shielding near
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 23 23:58:01 EDT 1999 | Earl Moon
| | Jackie's posting recently and responses to it got me to dondering. First, recollecting, we bought an IR rework station a couple million years ago. It had a IR source on a stand, a bunch of lenses, and Reynolds aluminum foil for shielding near-b
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 23 22:18:50 EDT 1999 | Dave F
snip | | | | | I add my opinion to MoonMan's, hot air is the way to go. We have 3 big systems for BGA rework, 2 from AirVac, 1 from OK Industries. For most other SMT rework needs we use simple hot air systems. We have over a dozen of these small
