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Re: Solder paste tube disposal

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

Reduction of solder paste usage

Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 07 08:37:29 EST 2007 | davef

First, don't put solder paste in a wave solder pot, the 50% by volume of organics and volatiles will gas off in an astonishing amount of fume, leaving a dismaying mess of spent resin and molten plastic in your pot. Second, when you say, "Paste that

Lead Contamination of wave solder carriers

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

Wave soldering problem - strange colour of the solder

Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 15 03:42:08 EST 2007 | adamp

Hi all, Last week I have noticed, that solder changed colour in our Soltec wave soldering machine. I am using normal 62Sn37Pb alloy and it's colour changed to violet/darkblue with gold areas. I know that gold colour means that, there is to much Cu i

Speaking of Lead

Electronics Forum | Wed May 07 18:23:52 EDT 2008 | adamcrum

The reason my company was fined, was because they faile to file a one page document stating that they disposed of more than 100lbs of leaded solder in a year. The fine was not for creating toxic waste, as we diposed of the solder PROPERLY in accorda

Question of which bread pan to use when draining the wave solder pot?

Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 06 15:16:30 EDT 2020 | rieko

We are draining a leaded solder pot

Question of which bread pan to use when draining the wave solder pot?

Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 07 11:38:17 EDT 2020 | rieko

We are draining a leaded solder pot. I'm sure these would work with leaded as well. those look beautiful!

Question of which bread pan to use when draining the wave solder pot?

Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 07 13:30:57 EDT 2020 | davef

I have great memories [bad dreams??] of draining solder pots. Previous discussions on SMTnet are worthy of review. Some are here: https://smtnet.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=search_submit&searchstring=bread+pan&collection=site_forum