Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 15 18:21:55 EDT 2005 | dggjr
We have Kester 256 no-clean spec'd as an alternate paste. I bring some 256 in occasionally to make sure it still works as a backup. The last batch I brought in was bridging like crazy. Scraped it off the stencil, put our regular Alpha back down an
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 26 16:31:02 EDT 2004 | Sue PH
We use Kester 186 flux and the STU people would sometimes find white residue after cleaning with Isopropyl at the solder station. We have Lenium (Petroferm)in our vapor degreasers, and now they use Lenium at their stations as well as final clean, an
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 21 17:49:52 EDT 2004 | jsk
problem: Too many solvents and boards are not clean Flux remains on the board after vapor degreaser and "Powdery" white residue after vapor degreasing Flux type is kester 186 Process: hand solder High Temp alloy, spot clean after hand solder e
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 31 21:08:34 EST 2004 | Ed
Hey guys. I've been manually dunking circuit boards for 8 years now. I too have the excess residue issue to contend with. I'm using a low solids - no clean flux from Kester (959). I have used solvents, thinners, windex and a multititude of cleane
Electronics Forum | Mon May 09 13:55:33 EDT 2016 | dyoungquist
Omega Aqua Clean LPH. The flux we use in our selective solder process is Kester 2235. Our process cleans water soluble flux very well if cleaned within 24 hours of the boards being processed. We have sent boards off for cleanliness testing per sta
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 03 15:30:00 EST 2015 | ttheis
We've started off with Kester 951 'no-clean' so far which is alcohol based I believe. It seems to do very well with foaming, activation and low residue, but if we can move to water based and get good results that would be great. The 951 flux and thin
Electronics Forum | Sun Nov 08 17:04:26 EST 2015 | ttheis
Thank you very much for sharing this information. It is difficult to gain knowledge in this area independently. I'll contact Kester for information on adjusting the flux density and which "thinner" to use since I am using their flux. I really like
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 18 19:58:10 EDT 2000 | Dave F
broad answer. There's tons of suppliers. Go to "Circuit Assembly" magazine web site and look-up flux suppliers in the "Buyers Guide." Broad line suppliers are Kester, Alpha ... They will make you answer: I'm joining bla, bla, bla metals, using b
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 10 17:33:37 EST 2000 | Ivan Rojas
I will just like to know if is ok to build a board with a BGA ,with water soluable paste and washed or is better to use a no clean paste . And one last question , what do you guys think about the better paste Kester or Indium .
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 25 21:45:22 EDT 2024 | buckeye
I got an inquiry from one of our electronics labs with regards to their soldering processes. They use eutectic (63% Sn, 37% Pb) solder. For liquid flux they are currently using Kester 186, which is an old-school, full rosin (RMA and ROL1) flux that c
