Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 27 13:43:42 EST 2007 | wavemasterlarry
Thanks Russ. Everyone knows that when you clean your wave you wear a dust mask. Well that tells ya the lead is flying around. So same goes fr your oven. Hot solder paste turns into the lead. And like a wave it is very hot. Hot stuff vaporizes l
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 21 14:14:11 EST 2007 | rgduval
Hi, Bill, Lead-free solder and paste manufacturers will be a great resource for you during the transition; they've tested their products extensively, and their application groups have been able to help me through the biggest changes. There are a fe
Electronics Forum | Sun May 21 19:18:52 EDT 2006 | grantp
Hi, I think you should be ok, as the contamination in a reflow oven is generally flux from what I have seen. I have never heard to the solder metals itself being inside the oven apart from some paste in hole we did that sometimes dropped a bit of so
Electronics Forum | Sat Nov 03 10:57:27 EDT 2012 | davef
EricR: Regarding "*** By the way, since we have used the Tin-Silver-Copper lead free solder there has been a strange liquid type chemical leek from the oven exhausted pipes." ... I don't know anything about your process, but the first thing I'd inve
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 14 11:34:04 EDT 2003 | Axl
As far as solder paste goes search no further! I have worked for some huge CM's as a Process Engineer and a lot of them have put thousands of hours of Engineering time and evaluation just to come up with the same answer every time. For no-clean it is
Electronics Forum | Fri May 29 08:25:13 EDT 2009 | floydf
We are getting what looks like cold solder joints on one of our boards. The boards have an aluminum substrate, and use OSP plating. The solder is lead free - 96.5 Sn, 3.0 Ag, .5 Cu. The flux is no clean. When we first had the problem, my solder profi
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 25 15:19:15 EDT 2005 | jimmyjames
Sorry this is such a long thread but I would like as much input as possible to everything I ramble on about... :) ------------------------------------------------------ We are now seeing more and more RoHS parts showing up in our SMT inventory and
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 22 15:59:43 EST 2002 | GSW
What type of reflow profile are you using ? There is a void reduction profile recommeded by some paste manufacturers, Try that it might help. Did you check the components or the board and see if they have absorbed mositure ? try baking the boards and
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 18 08:51:34 EDT 2008 | ldavis
We actually found the opposite to be true. Boards processed in VP are much cleaner than those processed in our air-only convection oven. We tested 5 lead free solder pastes upon implementation and found that the type of paste does affect the number
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 20 18:48:18 EST 2019 | rhormigox
Reflow with lead free 96.5 /3/0.5 No-Clean T4 brown-orange burn color on parts While I have been an observer for years, now I am mostly new into reflow process. I tried to reflow a big 4 Layers board and without knowing much about solder pastes oth