Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 06 08:22:04 EDT 2000 | David Chapman
Have you thought about stencils for glue? We stencil all glue boards quite succesfully. No CAD no clogged nozzles, much faster speed aperture designs are fun to work with. Just a thought for an alternative. All the companies mentioned also will advis
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 08 14:36:44 EST 2003 | davef
It depends on your product requirements. We don't like to print off-pad, because: * Tough to control the amount of paste that squirts onto the board, because the aperture is not gasketed to the pad on the board. * Some paste that squirts between the
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 08 12:24:11 EST 2005 | cyber_wolf
Any good stencil house should be able to recommend the proper configuration on a fine pitch aperture design. They can also advise you as to which foil thickness works best. The norm foil thickness is .005" - .006". There are always special instances
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 16 10:19:36 EST 2007 | slthomas
Then how do we explain the poor printing performance (appears to be rheology based, paste thickening/drying, poor aperture fill, sticking to the blades, etc.) of paste that has exceeded it's shelf life? You know, the stuff that no amount of stirring
Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 23 11:41:34 EDT 2007 | grantp
Hi, We use 1:1 for 1 mm BGA and it works fine. We used it at 4 thou laser cut stencils when we had a manual stencil printer, but have moved to 5 thou with the DEK and it works ok. We originally went to 4 thou because of paste release, but the DEK
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 07 08:45:02 EDT 2017 | dleeper
In my experience with similar sized parts, the nano coatings (or what ever your supplier might call them) do help with repeatable paste release. How are you cleaning your stencils? A big red flag to me is that your stencil worked fine for the first
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 04 17:44:20 EDT 2021 | dwl
The hardest part was convincing management of the need for a stencil cleaner in the first place. Cleaning by hand using IPA and a lint free cloth just leads to clogged apertures and print defects. BTW, lint free cloths leave behind a lot of lint.
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 03 18:39:49 EDT 2024 | proceng1
I wouldn't mix it in a jar with new paste. But in another jar to be used on the next job, sure. I mean if your concern is contaminates, doesn't that mean its contaminated on the stencil? Unless the board is a hard one to print, or has really tiny
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 18 19:16:42 EST 2001 | slowe
I am having problems with D-Packs shifting during reflow. Does anyone know of a good aperture design to solve this problem ? Possibly bow tie.
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 19 13:21:01 EST 2001 | billschreiber
Thank you for giving me an easy one. Cleaning populated PCBs in a stencil cleaner can be a nightmare! Please see my response to the question by MartyS on "Fine-pitch Apertures". If this doesn't answer your question, let me know.
