Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 26 07:37:52 EDT 2006 | amol_kane
"Can we reuse the same machine? My point here is that the non lead free process has already coated the machine interior ( exhaust, internal flow ) with leaded component, and by conversion to lead free are we containminating the lead free product from
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 10 14:31:57 EST 2005 | russ
Patrick told you why, But here is some more info for ya, I would absolutely not recommend that wires be tinned with OA. The residue will never get cleaned underneath the insulation and all of your strands will strt to break in the near/far future.
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 10 10:06:08 EST 2005 | steve
OK all you Gurus here's one for ya. Customer is tinning wires with standard eutectic solder in a solder pot. There is a blue tint to the solder in the pot. After tinning with OA flux, which I will change to NC shortly, he has clear teflon insulation
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 15 11:56:42 EDT 2004 | patrickbruneel
I would try a PTFE (Teflon) wire or Teflon protected wire or you could try anodized aluminum. Its getting more and more interesting how the lead free era develops. Just a thought I wander how long its going to take the tin (not passivated with lead)
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 13 12:41:38 EST 2006 | masrimhd
Hello, I know for sure that using lead-free technology in conventional tin-lead machines makes a lot of problems. But I wonder if we can use conventional tin-lead alloy and components with a lead-free machine! Is it possible? Does this imply any s
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 14 03:58:17 EST 2006 | Rob
Yes, it's fine - as Pete says you have to replace certain parts & either get the pot recoated or a new one. We ran a "Lead free" 6622C from Vitronics Soltec on Tin Lead, then it was cleaned up, recoated and loaded with a no-lead alloy with no proble
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 08 14:32:01 EST 2005 | jdumont
A wave machine mfg we are looking at is using this gas nitride treatment on all the 'wetted' parts to prevent the tin errosion of the underlying metal. Does anyone have any experience with this type of process. Any reliability/longevity data? Thanks
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 15 10:58:16 EDT 2004 | mwg9184
I am trying to put a center support on a wave solder machine for lead free soldering. My problem is that every metal I use is interacting with the lead-free metals and thus eating away the center support. I have tried titanium, stainless steel. I am
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 30 15:15:34 EST 2016 | warwolf
Any lead free will eat a leaded designed wave soldering machine. But SN100c will eat it the slowest, our soldering tips used to only last 3 months with SAC305 when we changed to SN100c solder wire we are having around 9 months tip life. Our wave sol
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 13 13:26:21 EST 2006 | pjc
If you're asking about wave solder machine, yes you can run Sn/Pb in a "Pb Free" machine. The concern is that when its time to run Pb Free you're going to have to remove all the parts from the solder pot to remove all the Pn/Pb solder residue from po
