Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 08 11:50:55 EST 2011 | pgoodyear
As a technician that does frequent board level repair / rework some issues have come to mind. I have been an electronics technician for almost 50 years. In that time I have seen the evolution of electronics from point to point wiring using vacuum
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 17 19:44:20 EDT 2000 | Dave F
Ashok: Well, your customer probably has a good reason for wanting you to send them boards without holes in the solder mask. What is their goal for the mask capabilities after you get do reworking the boards? * Cosmetic surface coat? * Performance t
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 18 10:39:59 EDT 2006 | thomas
Anyone have information, who or company repair SRT Sierra 1000 BGA rework station.
Electronics Forum | Sat Apr 30 10:37:25 EDT 2005 | Daniel
I think he did mentioned the board size in the inital thread: "265mm x 207mm pcb", but maybe it was not clear written. I have a question about rework and pre-heat: is it necessary to have the pre-heater to cover the whole board size, even if you onl
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 29 03:47:12 EDT 2005 | fastek
I'm confused. Aren't Fuji nozzles like $20 each? Why bother? I would hope you understand that a nozzle not properly repaired could cause $50 worth of rework in about a minute after you installed it. Stepping over dimes to pick up pennies comes to min
Electronics Forum | Sat Apr 30 13:56:31 EDT 2005 | steve
My experience with different size boards and pre-heaters. The perfect world (right?) you would saturate the complete pcb with bottom pre-heat. But it is difficult with repair and rework equipment, not to mention the expense and foot print of large pr
Electronics Forum | Tue May 24 21:48:23 EDT 2005 | steve
You can continue repair and rework with tin/lead solder until 7/06. However!!! Any product still on the shelves overseas after 7/06 will be returned to the USA. Thought? Maybe start repairing with SAC305 now? Also SAC is Tin, Silver and Copper. No Ni
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 10 19:49:32 EDT 2001 | nifhail
What would be the best method for attaching the balls, when doing BGA rework. I Found that by using the solder paste, it will give us better rework yield vs using the paste flux ? My data was collected from a very small experiment and hard to conclud
Electronics Forum | Mon May 23 23:21:18 EDT 2005 | magkel
HI guys, I am new to this forum, Earlier author is asking regarding of Lead free rework. 63-37 is non lead free and this will contaminate the product itself. I do not know what are the components that you are facing to rework with. But try to set th
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 13 08:25:03 EDT 2001 | caldon
You will need to prepare the component and site for rework. Using solder wick remove the solder from the pad site and the component balls. You can also use a heated Vacuum desoldering tool. To reball we have been using Winslow Automation reballing ki
