Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 21 12:25:45 EST 2015 | dyoungquist
Kester makes a thermocouple solder: Alloy SN10PB88AG2 Flux "44" Core 58 Diam 0.031" I have used this to solder thermocouples to pcbs when profiling for lead-free temperatures. When done you can unsolder the thermocouple and reuse it again. This g
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 13 03:01:57 EST 2015 | eniac
Yes, Kester it's a very good brand in solder materials. I use Kester solder paste and cored wire 10 years - and I naven't any problems. About screen printers - check information about SJ Inno Tech equipment. This is South Korea brand, I have a 4 pri
Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 23 12:42:20 EDT 2001 | genny
OK, to reopen this and muddy the water a little more, What is the difference between REL0 and ROL0 solder. The solder paste that more than one of our suppliers is using is AIM293+ - this is REL0 The no-clean solder wire we use in house is ROL0, mad
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 18 17:41:07 EDT 2001 | genny
Hi, I put this on the technet forum, and I know some of the same people are here, but I thought I might catch others here as well. We have PCB's which are populated at the CM level with no-clean solder paste. However in house we use a solder wire s
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 17 12:10:57 EDT 1998 | Steve Gregory
| | Hi Folks, | | Need to draw upon the vast expertise in this forum... | | Whenever you fill a new wave solder machine with fresh bar solder, it seems to produce more than the normal amount of dross for a few weeks. I always understood this to be t
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 18 09:58:27 EDT 1998 | Chrys
| | | | Hi Folks, | | | Need to draw upon the vast expertise in this forum... | | | Whenever you fill a new wave solder machine with fresh bar solder, it seems to produce more than the normal amount of dross for a few weeks. I always understood thi
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 10 12:14:33 EDT 2009 | jdumont
Solder wire is so cheap that unless you have tons of expired spools just throw it away and buy new. You are prob costing the company more money spending hours of time researching this and not something more important.
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 26 08:07:25 EDT 2009 | davef
Many solder wire suppliers put a on rolls of solder wire either a: * "Date of manufacture" stamp and then specify a shelf life in their product documentation ... OR * "Date of expiration." J-STD-005, 6.2, 6.3, and Table 4, where it states "If the st
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 26 05:57:45 EDT 2009 | aw126901
Hi We have recently noticed that our lead free solder wire is being supplied with expiry dates (typically 2-3 years after manufacture). I have seen "date of manufacture" information on wire before but I was not aware that a cored solder wire could e
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 01 07:39:14 EDT 2009 | shannond
We started to use wire from Metallic Resources because they have no expiration date for "properly stored" product.
