Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 21 09:22:45 EDT 2011 | patrickbruneel
Russ, Try to shake the 1 gallon jug and see if you can create foam on top of the liquid. If you don’t see any foam at all something is wrong with the flux. Patrick
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 21 12:03:54 EDT 2011 | russw
If I shake it hard, I get a thin foam which quickly goes away. Not sure what it should look like.
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 21 12:51:43 EDT 2011 | patrickbruneel
As long as you see foam it's probably not the flux. Try to increase the flux level in your fluxpot that should help reducing the bubble size.
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 21 15:13:42 EDT 2011 | Shean Dalton
Shenmao SM-816 is alcohol based no-clean liquid flux and can be used in the foam fluxer. http://db.tt/sHkmOOyf If you'd like more info, contact me offline.
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 21 14:55:34 EDT 2011 | patrickbruneel
http://www.interfluxusa.com/Datasheets-PDF/IF2005Mz-(DSRev08).pdf
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 07 16:33:42 EST 2011 | russw
OK, still haven't figured this out. New flux, new air pump, new tubing, new stone, but flux still not rising enough. Pump has correct voltage. We've eliminated everything, but we still cannot find the problem. What else could possible keep the fl
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 20 14:03:53 EDT 2011 | russw
We don't have the equipment to check specific gravity, we just assume what's on the bottle is correct and we've never had a problem. The stone sits in an open chamber, so there really isn't any pressure to check. When we vary the air flow, the foam
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 20 11:28:20 EDT 2011 | russw
We've got a Novastar 12S wave solder machine and we've been using Kester 951 flux for years with no problems. We just got a new bottle of 951 and it does not foam correctly (thin foam with lots of large bubbles). After a lot of back and forth with
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 20 11:59:06 EDT 2011 | SheanDalton
Check specific gravity: According to a quick web search, the specific gravity should be 0.813 ± 0.003. If you have records of the specific gravity, compare current reading to past readings. Check pressure near stone: if you have records, compare
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 23 10:11:17 EDT 2011 | patrickbruneel
Oswaldo, Your reasoning is correct, but the strange part is that Russ didn’t have a problem for years using the same flux so you would assume his fluxer is designed for low solid fluxes.
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