Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 30 08:11:22 EST 1998 | Derek Drabenstadt
Does anyone have any experience with fired-silver/platinum/palladium lead terminations soldering. I have had issues on nickel over gold plated boards but not with HASL'd boards with tin/lead pads. Is this the norm?
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 19 08:03:18 EST 2010 | theo
Can anybody tell me what kind of anti-seize compound to use in a lead free solder pot? I have found copper, nickel, and silver anti-seize but I cannot decide which one to use. Thanks for the help.
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 14 11:04:54 EDT 2008 | herman
Samir, To correct some misconceptions on the answers to your question, and "what you know from experience": With both ENIG (Electroless Nickel/Immersion Gold-IAu) and IAg (immersion silver), soldering does not take place to the gold or the silver. Wh
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 01 08:27:38 EDT 2004 | davef
Zinc from the brass [Cu3Zn2] diffuses into the tin causing solderability problems. Just 0.001% of Zn in your solder can render it fit for the scrap heap. So, you need a barrier plate between the brass and the tin. Copper or nickel-plating is commonl
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 11 17:14:13 EST 2002 | davef
We have one product with electroless nickel, immersion silver solderability protection. We do not purport to be experts, but like many things, have seemingly boundless opinions. Side note: There are a least three different [maybe five] imm silver
Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 04 12:11:49 EDT 2011 | davef
Q1) How to identify on good or bad RF shield that could contribute to dewetting? A1) We use Alloy 770 and 752 [German silver] for our RF shields. We have never seen a solderability issue, even aged stock solders well. * Nickel Alloy 752, Nickel Silv
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 15 16:50:04 EDT 2005 | davef
Few of us here on SMTnet fabricate our bare boards. Most of us are assemblers. So, the solderability of the connections of our boards is a BIG issue with us. Our suppliers protect the solderability of the copper by coating the copper to limit the
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 27 09:09:36 EST 2006 | davef
Silver on your copper or brass part is a solderability protection. The silver diffuses into the solder and you solder to the base metal, either the copper or brass in your case. Soldering to copper is well known. The issues are soldering to brass
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 25 10:56:36 EDT 2009 | ghepo
Eric, the problem is a crack of the nickel PAD, or is a PILLOW defect ? See the photos annexed.
Electronics Forum | Sat Jul 24 10:20:15 EDT 1999 | Bob Willis
PCB Solder Finishes Survey Questions 1999 Results for the 1996-7 survey are located at www.smartgroup.org As a number of SMART people have requested an update on the solder finishes survey SMART Group have run in the past here is your opportunity t
