Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 14 09:44:06 EDT 2007 | Cmiller
We use cartridges, that way nobody can mix back in paste off the stencil and no air can get in period. Any paste that is still good to use when removed from a stencil at the end of a job is put into a small pink zip-lock baggy with the date written o
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 01 04:07:31 EDT 1999 | Brian
| Recently, our solder dross reclaimer refused to take our | used solder paste tubes. He said the small percent of paste | remaining in the tube is now considered hazardous waste. I'm interested in advice on how others are disposing of this "hazardou
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 25 10:11:09 EDT 2000 | Wolfgang Busko
Paddesign, aperture size and stencil thickness determine the amount of solder for your joint. Once you have found suitable parameters you need to control the volume of your paste deposit which is influenced by printer settings, paste condition, stenc
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 19 15:04:10 EDT 2011 | ccouture
Seika make a solder paste recycling unit that will melt solder paste and separate the solder from the flux. You end-up with liquid flux in a jar and a block of solid solder, which you could re-use in a solder wave if the type is the same.
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 21 09:11:33 EDT 2021 | korb23
we use a company that pays us for our left over solder paste in the pot. and for dross.
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 03 15:14:18 EDT 2024 | SMTA-74487602
I'm hoping to hear what others are doing regarding "recycling" paste. By recycling paste, I'm referring to an operator taking the paste left over on a stencil after a work order is done and putting it either back into the jar it came from originall
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 15 10:49:24 EDT 2021 | SMTA-64385941
Just wondering if anyone on the forum knows of a solder paste recovery/re-cycling system that can turn old solder paste into solder bar?
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 15 20:27:09 EDT 2021 | cbeneat
Check with Sono-Tek. We have a dross recovery machine, which works great. They may make one for what you're looking for.
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 11 12:29:01 EDT 1999 | John Thorup
| We have three buckets filled with leftover solder paste from our screen printing process. Kester has informed me that they no longer take paste, but only dross and pot dumpings. Does anyone know if there's someplace I can recycle this, or am I go
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 23 20:59:34 EDT 2004 | KEN
Ahmen bro. About 6 years ago I sent 12,000 dollars of this paste to the recycler because I calculated the cost of direct manufacturing defects would outweigh the cost of the paste!
