Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 16 23:34:56 EST 2006 | mds33200
Hi, I am new in this industry and have purchased a beguinner unut, a 3-in-1 solder, desolder, hot air station. Currently I work on cellphone mainboards. At the moment I only replace single large chips on the mainboard. I would like to be able to repl
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 17 15:12:26 EST 2006 | mds33200
Hi, I am located in Auburn Mass (USA) right near Worcester. Now I noticed you talked about micro stencil for a populated PCB, would I need one? Or could I use a syringe to lay a tiny dot of paste since im only replacing a chip or 2 (at the moment)? I
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 17 16:24:18 EST 2006 | billwestiet
I'm in North Attleboro, small world. To answer your question, you can deposit small dots of paste with a syringe. Kind of tricky work, and there are small stencil soluions out there fairly inexpensively. See http://www.minimicrostencil.com/ (I do
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 17 14:42:06 EST 2006 | billwestiet
Mark, This is a big topic. Where are you located, it would probably be best to hook you up with someone in your area. Anyhow, lead or lead free should be based on whether the circuits are lead or lead free. I would guess that cell phones would all
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 13 05:25:03 EDT 2001 | surachai
I would like to know about the efficiency of hot air knife debridging option with wave solder machine ,anyone use this option please suggestion to me about yield ,side effect or profitable of this option . Thanks.
Electronics Forum | Sat Jul 14 10:34:42 EDT 2001 | davef
This portion of SMTnet is intended for people whining about the operation of the forums and what-not. A lot of the people asking questions like your use the production forum. We don't have an air knife on our wave, but I recall some threads on SMTn
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 10 22:41:56 EDT 2008 | davef
Did you try here: http://cgi.ebay.com/OK-INDUSTRIES-INC-SMT-1160-HOT-AIR-SOLDERING-SYSTEM_W0QQitemZ130237552185QQihZ003QQcategoryZ26261QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 29 20:32:08 EST 2000 | irwanm
I'm new in SMT and the company I'm working with has already purchased SMFL-3000 manual pick & place system with hot air and we don't have reflow oven. We are now starting design SMT board. My question is, how we reflow the solder? After all component
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 13 21:05:34 EST 1999 | Curtis T.
Ken, we always build the bottom side of the board first. That also insures that there isn't any problems with the actives being reflowed and falling off in the glues curing process. By the way we do both paste and glue on the bottom of the boards t
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 02 12:49:57 EDT 2008 | jlbelectronics
Hi all, I have a OK industries hot air pencil model number SMT-1160 even though the label on the base says its a SMT-1102. The problem that I have is that the Diaphragm (diafram) has ruptured inside the small internal air pump. Where can I get a p
