Electronics Forum | Sat Jan 06 10:12:51 EST 2001 | Dave F
Vinyl ESD floor tiles are probably the most expensive approach to "permanent" flooring, about $8 a square installed. VPI and 3M are reputable suppliers. Let me digress on ESD floor "waxes", the earlier poster�s comments are well taken, but the bigge
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 05 12:01:26 EST 2001 | Jim M
I've been involved with no-clean flux and conformal coat in the past.It has been my experience that the amount of no-clean flux used is proportionate to how well the conformal coat adheres to the boards.No clean paste did not affect adhesion. The co
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 19 17:43:30 EST 2001 | davef
Intermetalic Layer (IL). A compound formed at the interface of two different metals, whose atoms have an extremely high natural attraction for each other, so high, that they do not bond to other elements by any other means. Also, intermetalic compo
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 29 09:31:28 EST 2000 | Erick
Marc: My experience found reliability IS a function of operator skill and attension to the process. Expecially for some RF assemblies. I worked with an engineer from Rogers to develope a process for reworking Pads for a special material. (I thing
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 22 10:29:15 EST 2000 | C.K.
Larry: I've got extensive experience with solder skips on both 0603 and SOT23 devices. We also installed an "Omega" vibrating wave on our machine, but it didn't really have an impact on solder skips. The major difference that the omega makes is in
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 28 15:47:06 EST 2001 | kerryn
Mike, I see that you are from Aqueous Technologies and you sell stencil cleaners. I now understand your sensitivity to this subject. I seriously doubt that the EPA would copy you on correspondence between the EPA and another company. If they did,
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 18 22:23:44 EDT 2001 | davef
First thing, I wouldn't buy new. There's tons of this stuff out there, the problem is finding the used stuff. One place to look is the SMTnet used equipment sales watteverzits called. Roland knows the name. Most work bench suppliers [eg, Arlink,
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 26 13:17:45 EDT 2001 | Hussman
Most solder paste manufacturers will take a reasonable amount of paste back, just so they won't loose your business due to bad paste. But if you're asking to ask to ask - separated paste from flux is not a bad thing if the jar was never opened. Pas
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 03 05:13:01 EDT 2001 | mugen
Well none of us, really know whether, this 0805 CAP is really an unsolder/tombstone defect, coz none of us verfied this with, our own eyes *duh* Funny, this only happened for us, on 0402 ~ 0201 SMD.... Check your land-pad design specifications, if
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 17 09:47:10 EST 1999 | John O'Brien
Chuck: Your best resource is the Symbology Research Center in Huntsville AL. In is a research and development facility run by RVSI Acuity CiMatrix, the folks who invented the Data matrix (DM) 2-D code. This facility is unbiased as to technologies and
