Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 05 15:50:34 EST 2010 | davef
Baild1632: We've talked about ultrasonic cleaning of assembled boards here on SMTnet several times. Search the fine Archives to find threads like: http://www.smtnet.com/Forums/Index.cfm?CFApp=1&Message_ID=56105
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 08 09:14:37 EST 2010 | baildl632
davef: Thanks for the guidance! I am new to the sight and hope to gleen some usefull information for our line for better quality!
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 29 19:11:10 EST 2010 | kaz
We (Industrial Electronics Service Depot) have been using a dishwasher with success on dirty/contaminated boards but without BGAs. Now we have a CPU board with couple of BGAs on it and no experience/expertise.. Is the washing it and the compressed
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 05 14:29:14 EST 2010 | kaz
the board in question is from Foba Laser Engraver, it's a surface contamination coming from.. everywhere, a lot of moving parts that are lubricated. I'm now studding chemicals that we may use for our kind of rework & cleaning. We may think of modifyi
Electronics Forum | Sun Jan 31 18:05:30 EST 2010 | davef
Questions are: * What kind of oil is this? Where did it come from? * In olden days, we used to pour oil on the wave solder pot to limit dross formation and loosen-up the solder. Miss that stuff, sigh. * Is there oil under the BGA? It's surface ten
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 05 11:50:54 EST 2010 | baildl632
I just browsed this article and found no mention of cleaning with a "sonic" washer. We have a PMR Systems Ultrasonic Stencil Cleaner. The manual says it works well on cleaning PCB's for varoius reasons. It works excellent for removing lead. We can wa
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 29 21:31:46 EST 2010 | aqueous
I would recommend the following paper entitled "Cleaning for Reliability Post QFN Rework" by Mike Bixenman (Kyzen) and myself (Aqueous Technologies). While it discussed cleaning under QFN's in a batch environment, it is also applicable to cleaning u
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 10 15:06:11 EDT 2009 | dyoungquist
My guess is that he is talking about the gold plated pads not fully wetting with solder. We have seen this on some of our ENIG boards with the gold still showing at the far corners of the rectangular pads. Not knowing if this is hand soldering or p
Electronics Forum | Sun Nov 01 01:33:52 EST 2009 | isd_jwendell
Just my opinion: Top pic - Solder mask registration WAY too far off, without a doubt I would reject. Bottom pic - I would worry that there was/is a contamination that caused the poor looking mask. This may be cosmetic only, but unknown. I would rej
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