Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 31 13:51:33 EDT 2012 | joeherz
First off - There should be no issue with washing your OA/water soluble boards with the other customer's no clean units provided that the recipe being used has been validated to effectively clean each product. If your supplier is using a batch syste
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 29 11:28:27 EDT 2004 | grayman
do you mean the parts like capacitor or solder paste/solder bar. If you mean solder paste/solder bar, yes you'll have big trouble. Why? because LF solder paste/solder bar has high melting point and different composition. However if parts like capac
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 04 14:42:08 EST 2008 | ratsalad
Are you talking about Durastone? That's what we use for our wave pallets. Both our wave vendor and solder bar vendor told us that we had nothing to worry about as far as Pb-contamination of the pallets. We have used the same pallets across our Sn
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 27 16:43:15 EST 2005 | russ
Ther is a solder alloy out there that is supposed to allow lead free wave processing without having to upgrade pumps and such or increasing the pot temp (direct drop in). I have not used it nor do I plan on doing leadfree wave soldering but you may
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 27 15:13:26 EST 2005 | jbrower
Hi Tom, Thanks for the compliment. I've been researching and planning for the time that my company would go lead free since late in 1999. I hear you there, how do we know that the component is lead free. Baring a leap of faith with your vendors, I
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 01 11:54:14 EST 2005 | TomA
Indy, I found the same findings as you. The claim is that the solder joint may actually look closer to a SnPb solder joint then the SAC alloys. I had commited to the SAC alloys at SMT before finding out about the SN100C alloy. I'm interested in what
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 25 13:42:35 EST 2010 | patrickbruneel
This is a post from another forum as a response from Bob Landman to a claim that he had no evidence to be concerned about lead-free in hirel applications (interesting read). See below and am sure many technetters will find this interesting **********
Electronics Forum | Wed May 11 11:36:43 EDT 2005 | rlackey
Hi Peter, There is no Silver in it, which even in small quantities (0.3%-4%) improves solderability. I would try and see a demo on a similar machine to yours with a similar product as everyone can get their solder to look great in lab/showroom site
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 01 15:54:53 EST 2005 | jbrower
Hi George, The simple answer is that if you're company only does business in the US, or South america or Antartica or any where else that you aren't frozen out due to RoHS and the WEEE directives, then going lead free may not make sense. Unless your
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 11 17:36:44 EDT 2009 | dyoungquist
You are looking for a complete SMT assembly line plus possible X-Ray inspection and rework equipment. The 3 components of the SMT line are stencil printer, pick-n-place machine and reflow oven. How small are your components? 0603? 0402? What is the
