Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 13 15:09:55 EDT 2021 | dingerusaf
What is the proper storage and shelf life after washing a PCB with an OSP finish? We sometimes have to pull the boards off the line and wash the solder paste off the boards.
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 20 09:03:18 EST 2001 | moseschee
Hi, I'm looking for research/study done on solder shelf life by using accelerated aging process ( steam age or dry air oven bake at 150C & etc ) Perhaps you could help to advise correlation of all this acceleration test to actual solder shelf life
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 19 08:04:04 EDT 2001 | dahsr
I have a sealed and refridgerated 350g jar of solder paste (water soluable flux). According to the label it expired July 1st. 2001 after the 6 month shelf life. Can this be used? Why or why not? What is the relevance of the expiration date? Can I re-
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 28 21:39:47 EDT 2008 | davef
Shelf life numbers don't mean dip. Are the parts solderable per ANSI/J-STD-002, Solderability Tests for Component Leads, Terminations, Lugs, Terminals, and Wires? If yes, go solder the parts. If no, get better parts from your supplier.
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 08 11:16:01 EST 2001 | kmorris
Nope -- we don't shelf life control roll solder here. Just threw that on the list as a possible. I don't think it would be necessary.
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 18 15:39:18 EDT 2011 | bk
Tyco had a good read on the shelf life of tin plating and the different variables involved in determining it's shelf life. http://www.tycoelectronics.com/documentation/whitepapers/pdf/Keeping_Tin_Solderable.pdf
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 16 08:15:32 EST 2005 | GS
Thank you Dave, that is almost the asnswers we use to give to our Customers when auditing they ask for component shelf life. But as you can imagine, they whant to see a quick information right on the label (on Reels, on trays, etc) like: Use b
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 04 08:56:38 EST 2008 | tonyamenson
I talked to a solder paste chemsist and found out a few things. From above (Dave F) states a test for solder paste involving reflow on a non-wettable surface. Commonly known as the solder ball test this test is performed all the time by paste manufa
Electronics Forum | Sun Mar 15 23:58:01 EST 1998 | Phill Hunter
| | I am having a problem with Entek coated boards. The solder past seem to just ball up on the pads. I had no problems with the board when it was hot air leveled. The board is double sided surface mount. I have tried adjusting the oven profiles m
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 05 17:03:36 EST 2008 | ratsalad
We had the misfortune of ending up with a batch of Kester EM907 that would start to "set up" well before it's shelf life was over. Since the lead time for a new batch was excessive, a Kester technical guru came to our facility to help us deal with t
