Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 08 03:16:12 EST 2007 | oswald5087
hi' i need advise on immersion gold PCb shelf life. 1) what is the issue shelf life or expire for Immersion gold PCB? 2) How long we can keep the PCB? (with vacuum seal and without vacuum seal) 2) iF PCB expire, can we bake the immersion PCB? what t
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 07 17:45:37 EST 2022 | emeto
Hello all, Can anyone advise if any standard covers ENIG plated boards shelf life? Or share what you do for bare boards storage and expiration criteria?
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 13 05:48:52 EDT 2005 | charly
hi' i need advise on immersion silver PCb shelf life. 1) what is the shelf life for Immersion silver PCB? 2) iF PCB expire, can we bake the immersion PCB? what temp & duration? 3) How long can we keep the pCB again after rebaking? (with vacuum seal)
Electronics Forum | Sat Feb 19 10:27:38 EST 2011 | kahrpr
Just a thought. What is the real shelf life of the past? Do manufactures low ball the self life to sell more paste. If the past is perfectly good one day before the expiration date is it still bad one day after I doubt it. Right or wrong I have seen
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 24 22:32:56 EST 2011 | rstadem
PKannan, Your opinion is contrary to J-STD-005 "Requirements for Soldering Paste". Within that document is included specific requirements for re-certification of expired solder paste. Paste that is expired can be used after a simple viscosity test an
Electronics Forum | Sun Feb 20 20:52:26 EST 2011 | Jacki
I agreed not to ask the shelf life extension to the maker of solder paste. However, somtimes we have no chioce except using expired or used paste. When I have to, try the first PCB as a test. If Ok, just carry on other boards. Unless, use a new solde
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 23 07:36:22 EST 2011 | scottp
We have a new site that is in the process of starting up and doesn't run much (1 tube every couple weeks). They recently called me about using expired paste. I told them to print a few scrap boards and run them through SPI to verify good print and
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 18 11:24:52 EST 2011 | pkannan
The following is my opinion on the Shelf life of the Solder paste. Comments are welcome to support or against it. Solder Paste users often have the issue of Shelf life expiry condition. Companies including big MNCs, order certain quantities, but du
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 02 12:33:45 EST 2002 | blnorman
Shelf life dates are normally conservative. Years ago we would "requalify" adhesives by running lapshear tests. Don't know if Loctite has a "requalification" test or not. I do know that we have used Loctite chipbonders that were over a year out of
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 02 16:55:49 EST 2002 | steve
On a lot of Loctite products there is a shelf life stated via a lot number on the bottle. It has been my experience as a distributor that Loctite will in most instances re-certify a product for an extended period of time, sometimes up to a year based
