Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 30 16:25:21 EDT 2002 | davef
Imm silver holds-up to multiple thermal cycles very well. The things, we guess, are happening to make imm silver tough to solder after heating and sitting are: * Oxidation of the silver. * Reduction of the co-deposited organic anti-tarnish [used in
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 18 18:39:15 EDT 2001 | davef
Responding to your questions ... RELIABILITY OF 1% SILVER SOLDER PASTE: It�s as good as the next solder paste, all other things the same. Look at your back articles by Jennie Hang in SMT magazine. I want to say she wrote an article on the topic i
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 | Thu Mar 31 13:48:19 EST 2005 | shannond
Hi All, I have to solder a device with platinum clad nickel leads to a PCB. I am having a hard time getting solder to flow on to the leads. Are there special proceedures that I need to follow because of the platinum or am I just dealing with contamin
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 01 18:41:09 EST 2005 | KEN
Agreed. In my experience you will not wet solder to: Platinum Iron Constantine Tungsten Carbide titanium Chromalloy allomega alloy 303, 304 ...and the list goes on and on. You will either need to weld or braze. These are high temperature prcesses
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 29 21:51:37 EST 2005 | wmeyers
I have a pin and sleeve assembly that utilizes a fusible link type of solder, Bi, Cd, Pb and Sn alloy. The pin is gold plated, the sleeve is copper alloy 725. I have had sporadic success with wetting of the sleeve during the reflow process. To improv
Electronics Forum | Sun Apr 27 18:38:55 EDT 2003 | Yngwie
One of my customer asking me about my capability on soldering nickel strip onto the PCB pad. Given the size of the pad of 80 mil X 80 mil, and he want to ensure that we can pass 4.5kg peel force(solder wire Sn63/Pb37). Anybody with this experience ?
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 01 11:18:42 EST 2005 | russ
Platinum indeed! I would suggest that you contact your solder/flux supplier and see what they have to say. I am sorry but I have never had to deal with this finish before. Please post your findings if any. Good Luck Russ
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 01 15:43:26 EST 2005 | davef
Shannon: These detectors are aimed at applications that get bitchin' hot, like 600*C. We doubt there was a plan [by Omega] to have you use some sappy little 220*C solder to attach these leads. Check with your supplier, but we're wondering if you ca
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 29 22:32:51 EST 2005 | davef
The dissolution rate of nickel into tin is a lot slower than that of copper [into tin]. This results in a nickel-tin (Ni3Sn4) intermetallic that is only 0.25-0.75�m thin after a normal soldering process. The Ni-Sn intermetallic compound tends to be m
