Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 15 11:17:03 EDT 2010 | davef
Things don't disappear completely. If something caused nickel corrosion, the nickel corrosion by-product would be in place of the nickel. Is it possible that ... There never was any nickel? We know that the nickel will diffuse into the copper. Th
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 29 22:32:51 EST 2005 | davef
The dissolution rate of nickel into tin is a lot slower than that of copper [into tin]. This results in a nickel-tin (Ni3Sn4) intermetallic that is only 0.25-0.75�m thin after a normal soldering process. The Ni-Sn intermetallic compound tends to be m
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 29 21:51:37 EST 2005 | wmeyers
I have a pin and sleeve assembly that utilizes a fusible link type of solder, Bi, Cd, Pb and Sn alloy. The pin is gold plated, the sleeve is copper alloy 725. I have had sporadic success with wetting of the sleeve during the reflow process. To improv
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 22 12:33:35 EDT 2014 | barryg
No we have a battery spring that is soldered directly to a PCB (standard tin plated copper PCB). The Battery spring supplier (and I have no confirmation he makes them or buys them) claims they are tin plated. When trying to solder to them it is very
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 15 11:15:30 EDT 2004 | patrickbruneel
Pure (red) copper oxide is green, its not a residue its just oxidation. In your case water and heat will accelerate the oxidation process of unplated or unprotected pure copper. The best way to avoid this from happening is use a socket with tin or n
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 27 11:30:47 EST 2006 | solderiron
Kester is offering a tin/copper alloy for lead free. Any comments regarding using just tin/copper as opposed to tin/silver/copper or tin/nickel/copper? the price is low but why wouldn't everyone else offer just this alloy as opposed to the standard S
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 03 17:47:06 EST 2006 | Brian Smith
Kester offers Tin-Copper AND Tin-Copper-Nickel. The Kester K100 alloy is a Tin-Copper-Nickel material that is very similar to SN100C. Straight Tin-Copper isn't tremendously popular but can be used in low-cost, consumer-electronics applications wher
Electronics Forum | Sun Feb 05 08:41:15 EST 2006 | Cmiller
Are you refering to reflow soldering or wave soldering? Brian, do you have any data to support that SAC305 is more reliable than Tin-Copper-Nickel? NEMI reccomended SAC type alloys for reflow and Tin-Copper for wave. See: http://circuitsassembly.
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 03 08:18:17 EST 2005 | fctassembly
Hello Arnold, Just to clarify the Sn100C discussion: Please note that SN100C is the Nihon Superior alloy composed of tin/.7copper/nickel. The key point in regard to SN100C is that Cu does not go directly into solution but first reacts to form an inte
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 29 09:18:36 EST 2015 | davef
Nichrome, manganin, phosphor bronze etc are easy to solder ... the hard part is removing the corrosion * Manganin: 86% copper, 12% manganese, 2% nickel. Often, it's used in making cryogenic measurements, due to its low heat loss. * Select a flux for
