Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 25 13:06:47 EST 2000 | Bill Schreiber
When switching from cleaning RMA to a no-clean flux, one area that is commonly overlooked is the stencil cleaning operation. Stencil cleaners that are effective in cleaning RMA often fail when cleaning no-clean (especially alcohol cleaners). Pallet
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 02 14:29:41 EDT 2012 | markhoch
I disagree with the statement that using pads as fiducials shouldn't be a problem. If he's using pads on the PCB, than he is most likely using corresponding apertures on the stencil. During production, these apertures will start to have paste accumul
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 14 16:32:55 EDT 2023 | calebcsmt
Does class 2 vs class 3 PCBs effect variance/tolerance in terms of actual positioning of pads/traces? For example, if fiducial is to be at 10mm. What's the tolerance for class 2 vs class 3? [variance allowed] Does panelization have any effect on t
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 19 00:14:44 EST 2001 | zam_bri
Our process mostly are double sided reflow and we are using water soluble paste on ENTEK PCB. Rework WIP has been accumulated since the last 4 months, and upon clearing, one of the method that the test guy use are to reflow the PCB again for one mo
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 12 09:25:16 EDT 2007 | rgraves
Our internal designers are employing SMT connectors that utilize a �PCB positioning boss� in conjunction with normal gull wing leads. The use of these devices is based on the advertised ability of the boss to prevent �mis-insertions� and assist in �
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 12 11:28:06 EDT 2008 | gregoryyork
Lead Free is probably worse as it contains something like 25% more flux by volume than Leaded. But is unusual as No Clean organics usually volatise off and rosins are non volatile so should not accumulate readily unless mixing with other gases in the
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 23 22:31:47 EST 1999 | Vincent Chen
Hi!Charlie, 1.Are you retrofitting your spray fluxer in your wave soldering machine? If you are, please ensure that you have a air knife just before the preheater!Fluxe fumes tends to accumulate and that could be dangerous if your air exhaust is not
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 28 12:30:55 EDT 1998 | Bill Schreiber
Remember, even if you are successful in your justification of not cleaning your final product, there will always be a need for cleaning. Screens, stencils, misprinted PCBs, wave solder pallets, squeegees, tooling, etc. New cleaning applications can
Electronics Forum | Tue May 25 18:08:19 EDT 2021 | scarittagle
A certain degree of cleanliness is needed in SMT manufacturing environment but not as overkill as place it in a "clean room" environment... Yes, dust could cause defect on PCBAs (and there are research papers about it too) but onl
Electronics Forum | Sat Feb 05 21:58:08 EST 2000 | Stu Leech
I agree with all of the previous comments. 1) Here are a few things to keep in mind when cleaning with water. To effectively clean, any liquid must wet the surface. By itself, water has a surface tension of 70 dynes/square cm. This is relaively hig
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