Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 16 09:01:28 EST 2000 | Ashok Dhawan
I am looking for suggestions on " How to remove solder Balls". We have some designs and tools where nothing can be done economically except to remove the solder balls manually. We are using "Probe" picks to do that job. Anyone who can suggest a bet
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 16 10:41:34 EST 2000 | Russ
Are we talking midship SMT or wave soldering? SMT - I have found the best method is not having them (WOW) this can be accomplished through pad design, aperture design, placement accuracy, and profiling, It is my understanding however, that these
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 16 19:27:27 EDT 2001 | eliishee
I have no choice, as per customer's request to remove the solder balls. Can i use water to clean away the solder ball since i'm using RMA solder paste not the water soluable paste.
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 16 19:36:09 EDT 2001 | steven
I hv no choice as per customer's request to remove the solder balls. Can i just use water to clean away the solder balls since i'm using RMA solder paste and not the water soluable paste?
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 16 15:49:33 EDT 2001 | Steve
The solder balls you are talking about are caused by too much paste. Reduce the size of the stencil aperatures. Concerning removing the solder balls, the first thing you need to ask yourself is, do I need to remove them. IPC-610, 12.4.10 states, "Ac
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 06 04:02:28 EDT 2001 | eliishee
Thanks guys for all the input. i'm still struggling to find out the main cause. at time being, urgently need a suggestion of a effective way to remove all these solder balls. THANKS AGAIN.
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 05 07:34:57 EDT 2001 | steven
what is the main reasons that casuing solder ball during reflow? and how to remove them? (mostly arround the connector leads or between the 2 0402 chips). solder paste is RMA type. need advise. thanks
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 17 15:13:53 EDT 2001 | mparker
Dave - I agree that the U shape for QFP's sounds a bit whacked, for the reasons you state. It may work OK for larger pitchs but then again there are a myriad of fixes that work before resorting to U shapes. With the U shape removing paste from under
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 16 21:29:03 EDT 2001 | davef
Cleaning RMA with water is bad news. It will turn your solder connections white and remove none of the RMA residues. There was a thread on removing RMA within the past two weeks on SMTnet. Check the fine SMTnet Archives. Additionally, look at M
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 19 08:00:03 EDT 2001 | doctord
Solder balls or mid chip beads? Remember IPC classification for Class 2 allows mid chip beads encapsulated in flux. Usually on R's and C's first thing I would do is verify .006 laser stencil 10% reduction and the most critical, The paste must be on t
