Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 28 09:59:04 EDT 2003 | davef
Your customer's question is reasonable. Soldering to nickel is not always a walk on the beach [can of corn, or whatever]. This issue is flux not solder. Your Sn63 will have plenty of strength, providing the solder connection is well formed. You s
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 21 16:38:45 EDT 2014 | barryg
Hello all. We have been having some problems soldering to what we believe is a nickel plated spring steel battery terminal to a PCB. We have tried scrapping , then tinning, dipping and still have problems. Are there any special fluxes or pre-treats t
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 22 12:33:35 EDT 2014 | barryg
No we have a battery spring that is soldered directly to a PCB (standard tin plated copper PCB). The Battery spring supplier (and I have no confirmation he makes them or buys them) claims they are tin plated. When trying to solder to them it is very
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 07 15:57:56 EST 2003 | Marc Simmel
Are there specifications or recommendations for electro-deposited tin-lead plating thickness on austenitic stainless steel that would provide a shelf life of 1 year? 6 months? Would 2 to 3 microns (78 to 118 micro-inches) 90/10 tin-lead over 1.27 mi
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 03 17:39:34 EST 2008 | flipit
Why are you using stainless steel? Corrosion resistance? Can the stainless be gold plated? I think this can occur metallurgically. Maybe nickel first then gold. Why are you removing the nickel? Nickel is somewhat magnetic. Had an application onc
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 20 12:50:11 EDT 2005 | bobl
I used to collect mine in a 50 gal drum and take them to the scrap dealer. If he classifies it as brass or copper you can get a good return. Most leads are nickel and tin plated brass. Most dealers stick a magnet on it and tell you its not worth much
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 21 05:57:30 EST 2018 | premkumar_haribabu
Hi Robl, Thanks for your qucik reply!! , i understand if we use aggresive flux that we can impove solder wetting over nickel plate vs PCB pads & we need to solder through 12 zones reflow oven. Prem
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 16 08:41:34 EST 2018 | davef
Here's a similar thread earlier in SMTnet FORUM -- Soldering to a nickel plated battery terminal [ https://smtnet.com/Forums/index.cfm?fuseaction=view_thread&CFApp=1&Thread_ID=17474&#Message71990 ] We still have our neighborhood Batteries+ attach so
Electronics Forum | Fri May 21 15:20:26 EDT 1999 | JohnW
| I normally handle the soldering issues for this facility but a question was asked of me -- What the H@## is this stuff and what is causing it? Was wondering of I could get some input from any Guru on plating issues. Need info ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 12 05:24:35 EDT 2022 | ttheis
We recently parted out a GSM machine that we could not get operational. As parts came off of the machine it looked like the frame would make the world's strongest welding/work table. We stripped the frame bare and flipped it over instead of scrapping
