Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 07 13:43:33 EST 2007 | realchunks
Board vendors are always right. Unless you build yourself in their facility, at their price. Ways around this are half etch your stencil over the vias, open the resist (mask) on the vias, or use your own product (Sipad). The resist (mask) does app
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 09 07:51:09 EST 2007 | jax
If the attack was unwarranted I apologize. I still stick to my answer. Unless the board shop can get rid of it you have to find a way to deal with it. Etching trace paths into the stencils is inexpensive and works just fine. If you do not have the ti
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 20 13:24:35 EST 2007 | Wave Master Larry
LISTEN i know its been awhile but i'm back.just got back from consulting in China. i tell ya them Chinese realy have there acts together. anyway ive recently been consulting for SMTA as well. you see here i am posting from thier address.i'm pretty ti
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 20 06:05:10 EST 2007 | mk
Thanks to all for the info. The ideas to correct the situation are all excellent and if we see any more boards from this source with this condition we will know what to do now. In the end however, the real questions we are trying to answer are, 1.I
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 20 08:19:54 EST 2007 | Steve
One question about the build to print statement; is there some note saying that the vias are to be plugged with mask? If so, I'm wondering when the circle of mask was done over the vias. If it was done as a secondary operation after flood coating, t
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 15 08:24:32 EST 2001 | adrian
I thought the stencil was flush to the top of the board when Screen printing. When does this snap off occur in the screen printing process?
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 07 10:36:33 EST 2007 | mk
Wow JAX. Way off buddy, I promise!!!! This is real as have all my posts. As an officer of the SMTA Atlanta Chapter for the second term, I am familiar with the Forum Etiquette.. Thanks for defending our site's honor JAX. I don't like people who ab
Electronics Forum | Sun Jan 28 21:50:22 EST 2001 | Dreamsniper
Hi Adrian, If you do a "squeegee snap off" during solder paste printing...the result would be a very thick solder paste deposition. I think the correct term is stencil snap off or people say it "snap off distance". =)
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 23 17:34:07 EST 2008 | davef
We hear you talking two main issues: 1 Solder paste release 2 Thoughts on using two passes of solder paste on the stencil 1 Solder paste release * Check your aperture & aspect ratios [Search the fine SMTnet Archives for more] * Do a better job with
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 15 16:32:46 EST 2001 | Darby
Adrian, I'll go again. The term "snap off" on it's own refers to the distance between the bottom of the stencil and the top of the pcb. Sometimes referred to as "print gap". As you prefaced your question with "squeegee snap off" I thought you were as
