Electronics Forum | Thu May 20 07:53:55 EDT 1999 | Chris Nuttall
| | We care currently running into problems during our plug via process: | | At the moment we plug prior to soldermask (LPISM) using epoxy resin - plugging takes place from the component side - however we are seeing solderballs after solder level.Thi
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 15 16:28:48 EDT 2017 | davef
You should be searching on RN Wild, not Roger Wild This might be a good starting point https://supplychain.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/sc2011j.planteb.pacquetteasof1020.pdf
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 15 14:14:18 EDT 2017 | pfuhrman
I have seen a few references in this forum to an old study (1980s?) by Roger Wild at IBM. But I cannot find a published report or usable reference to one. davef mentioned the SMTnet archives as a possible source, but that has also been a dead end.
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 04 17:52:59 EST 2002 | davef
Yes, providing the surface of the via is solderable. * If so, how much paste? => Vias come in various sizes. Boards vary in thickness. So, the amount of paste to fill a via varies. Roughly, you�ll need twice as much paste as the volume of the via
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 04 11:08:56 EST 2002 | Matt Kehoe
We have a customer that desires to have their via holes plugged with solder after assembly. Is it possible to add the via holes to the stencil and print paste into them and expect them to plug? If so, how much paste? One to one on the stencil opening
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 05 22:34:27 EST 2002 | YoYo
You better be careful how you plug vias at screenprint - we currently have a customer that wants vias plugged, so we had a 2% aperature reduction so we would not have to much paste, I believe it should have been reduced more because some of the solde
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 23 16:32:05 EST 2007 | davef
There a several things you can do to prevent the solder wicking down the hole with the current design, and that's where you should focus. Cost goes up as you go down the list, but in neither case do you need to respin the board, have solder starvatio
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 25 12:49:58 EDT 2001 | Hussman
Been there - done that. Makes a mess on that 2nd reflow process- doesn't it!?!?!? This is caused by design. If the open via is located in the land area, it will flow thru the via and cause pumps on the opposite side. You can have your vias filled
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 25 14:08:59 EDT 2001 | davef
Oooo, the solder on the pad and PGA ball is flowing during reflow down the via to the secondary side? Why didn�t you say so?? ;-) Why would you expect that gravity and capillary action wouldn�t force solder to flow down the solder plated via to the
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 08 14:41:17 EDT 2002 | davef
See what happens when you take a couple of days off? Your theory sounds reasonable, but someone else could make an equally valid case that you are blasting your solder plug across the room with the force of the expansion of entapped air between th
