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Blue-Film on surface of leadfree Pot

Electronics Forum | Wed May 30 10:09:39 EDT 2012 | brettrenishaw

Recently we have noticed a purple-blue colour film on the surface of the molten solder. It can be cleared when de-drossing the pot. The pot will normally go a yellow/gold colour before it turns purple-blue. Is this most likely an oxide of the tin or

Re: Gold Finger Cleaning

Electronics Forum | Sat Nov 14 08:05:54 EST 1998 | Earl Moon

| | | | I believe that gold fingers on my circuit boards are being | | | | contaminated and need to clean them with some chemical | | | | solution. Any recommendations. | | | | | | | Chuck: What is the type and source of your contamination? Dave

Soldering problem with Au plating PCB

Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 26 13:13:07 EST 2009 | rgduval

We've had this same problem with the solder wicking to the component terminations. However, in our case, we did not see the pads turning a silver-white color...rather, they exhibited a tarnishing/darkening of the gold. We determined that we had som

Re: 0402's Tombstoning

Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 14 18:02:31 EDT 1999 | JohnW

Bryan, 0402's tombstonning isn't that uncommon and usually the 1st reaction is alway's the pad size aint right. If you've followed the IPC guidline's normally you should be fine but I'd double check the component supplier's spec's as well. brian's p

LGA and Solderballs

Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 28 21:16:17 EST 2006 | davef

J Rose at EMPF says: The introduction of no-clean solder fluxes in electronics manufacturing has given rise to greater levels of solder balling simply because the opportunity to remove them in the wash process does not exist. They are typically cause

USING LEAD FREE PARTS WITH LEAD PASTE

Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 21 17:11:47 EST 2005 | Mike Dolbow www.atotalgps.com

Has any one considered the melting eutectic of the plated part verses the eutectic of the paste it self. Inter metallic solids can form when mixing metals. Thus this causes solder joint reliability. Also a lot of vendors are putting out pure tin prod

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