Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 13 11:38:16 EDT 1998 | Steve Gregory
Zulfiqar, The company that makes these stencils is a Canadian company named KJ Marketing (I'll paste a link to the web site in this message). It sounds pretty interesting. I've communicated with a few people that have used these stencils and the
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 07 10:22:13 EDT 2000 | genglish
Ramon, I have had experience in the problems you are witnessing. The problem can relate to a number of factors. Obviously the printing process is the first place to start your investigations, try looking at the stencil apertures for bleed under the
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 06 06:15:49 EST 2005 | mattkehoe
We need some opinions about a situation that is causing problems in our process. The pcb's in question are .125 thick with a HASL finish. The boards are coming in with a large amount of solder trapped inside the via holes. Sometimes this solder is ac
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 14 17:24:08 EST 2000 | John Thorup
Yeah, it would be kind of expensive to replace all of your stencils but it's the only real answer. Be sure that all your new and replacement stencils have a home base or home plate shape for the passives. This reduces the paste volume near the cent
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 17 15:27:51 EDT 2001 | jschake
Challenges: The basic defects that impact assembly yield are bridging, satellite solder balls, and opens (i.e. tombstones / draw bridges). There are many variables with the stencil printing process that can impact these; several of them are listed
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 03 17:24:03 EDT 1999 | Steve A
| Hi everybody, | | Somebody know the advantages of electroformed stencils on laser cut stencils ? | | any coment is apreciated. | | | thanks | | Al | Hey Al, An Electroformed (an additive process) stencil is comparable quality wise as a laser
Electronics Forum | Mon May 24 13:33:46 EDT 1999 | Dave F
| We are running a number of boards with 8-10 25 mil PQFPs on board. Our process is mature with at least 3 years experiance and statistically few opens on the QFPs. Our beloved purchasing department has chased the almighty $ and changed FAB vendor
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 24 14:06:37 EDT 2001 | mparker
If you let your design team leave things up to chance, chances are something will go wrong. You are right to want to take control rather than be lead down an undesirable path by the fab house. Various masks serve certain desirable purposes. You need
Electronics Forum | Thu May 25 21:50:27 EDT 2000 | Dave F
Bill: I'd expect better gasketing on a nice flat solder mask surface rather than the edge of the stencil opening mashed down on a irregular shaped hunk of solder attached to a pad. Stop thinking and get printing Dave F
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 01 14:30:06 EDT 2005 | lsmith
I have recently tried electroform (100% nickel) stencils. Expensive but awesome paste release. 5 mil foil 10 - 15% aperture reduction for gasketing
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