Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 08 08:52:42 EST 2009 | cunningham
How do people prepare there solder paste for screen print? We currently remove them from the fridge and mix them in a 500g solder paste tub mixer to mix the flux and paste together we waste to much paste at the moment as we only use the tub for 1
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 10 12:53:12 EST 2009 | deanm
Bryan, Dyoungquist is correct. You should not need to mix solder paste. Overmixing solder paste can adversely affect it. Follow these guidelines and you should be fine: 1. Keep unopened containers of paste in the refrigerator. 2. Take one container
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 10 04:19:55 EST 2009 | cunningham
do you not have a problem with flux seperating from when it was chilled? due to our high mix low volume we really cant afford to have solder paste waiting for an hour or so till its ready before we can build
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 09 09:47:32 EST 2009 | dyoungquist
I am curious as to why you need to mix.... We use a 500g cartridge with air gun. Our process is remove the cartridge from the fridge, allow it to warm up to room temperature before inserting into air gun, then apply bead of paste to the stencil. N
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 10 12:57:25 EST 2009 | scottp
We've used mostly cartridges for many years and I only saw separation once when a particular paste supplier had a problem. With cartridges it's just thaw and use - no mixing. We have some sites that use jars along with mixers and I've never been co
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 09 03:34:06 EST 2009 | cunningham
Sorry i wasnt very clear we already have a Malcolm sps-1 for our tubs but to move over to cartridges we need a machine to do that none of those machines are capable of mixing a 6 oz cartridge
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 16 08:39:05 EDT 2013 | cyber_wolf
The screwdriver can scrape pieces of the plastic jar off and contaminate the paste if you aren't careful.
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 16 09:03:26 EDT 2013 | dontfeedphils
Just pick up some of the plastic putty knifes, pretty cheap.
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 16 23:29:53 EDT 2013 | vishnudas123
Dear Sir, Thank you very much for your suggestion.
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 17 00:19:24 EDT 2013 | vishnudas123
Dear Sir, Thank you very much for your suggestion.
