Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 28 08:45:03 EDT 2007 | pjc
I have seen point-to-point soldering iron tip robots in action at a number of factories. The problem is repeatability at delivering good solder joints. Consider a small selective solder machine, the nozzle type: www.ace-protech.com www.air-vac-eng.c
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 13 10:13:31 EDT 2007 | stockley
Lozie We built our own soldering robot using pace soldering irons but we have considered a Apollo Seiko bot for a different facility. I'm curious to know what kind of life you get out of those Apollo Seiko irons with lead-free solder. How many solde
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 09 10:17:43 EST 1999 | Mario Guel
Hi. I'm trying to looking for a manner to enlagre the solder tip life. I have heard about some chemicals substances that help both avoid or eliminate oxidation on tips. Anybody can suggest me some of those products Thanks in advance Mario Guel CMC Me
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 09 11:44:31 EST 1999 | john
| Hi. | I'm trying to looking for a manner to enlagre the solder tip life. I have heard about some chemicals substances that | help both avoid or eliminate oxidation on tips. | Anybody can suggest me some of those products | Thanks in advance | Mario
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 21 09:58:34 EST 2015 | dyoungquist
We are using Metcal STTC-8xx series tips. One thing that makes a huge difference on tip life is what type of solder you are using. If you are soldering with lead (SnPb) solder the tips will last 3 times longer on average than if you are soldering w
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 21 05:12:35 EST 2015 | jsolloway
Calling all Metcal users.... I am trying to get an idea of the expected tip life of a given Metcal solder tip and I am met with the generic response of "there are too many parameters" to give such a number, either in average number of solder joints
Electronics Forum | Mon May 15 11:25:10 EDT 2006 | muse95
Since when is Hakko putting more plating on their tips? I was told that there was no change to their tips, it was the same tip for Pb or Pbfree. Prior to first use, all Hakko tips are Pbfree. We have been seeing those tips degrade quicker with Pbf
Electronics Forum | Tue May 02 12:14:44 EDT 2006 | russ
You are exactly right, tip life is greatly reduced with the pbfree alloys. Some mafgrs are using an extra thick plating to reduce this. Next directive will be to determine what to do with all the tips now.
Electronics Forum | Fri May 12 07:53:40 EDT 2006 | egrice1
Sheldon, Tip life is directly related to temperature, IRON plating thickness on the tip, Alloy composition used and operator technique. High tin contents in lead free alloys attach the tips. Poor wetting and higher melting temperatures cause us
Electronics Forum | Tue May 02 12:25:08 EDT 2006 | choppy
I also heard that fluxes are more agressive in lead free alloys. Try maybe to clean your tip more often ?!?!?
