Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 05 11:04:14 EST 2007 | Yngwie
We are exploring ways to reduce the waste of solder paste. Here are some of the ideas I have in mind: 1) To use paste supplied in Syringe instead of jar. Paste that are opened more than 8 hours will normally be discarded, so we are looking for ways
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 09 09:37:28 EDT 2008 | scottp
Every paste supplier I've talked to has recommended against these things. They fear the paste will be overheated.
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 02 17:31:20 EDT 2021 | emeto
You did not mention what is different in the results? Is it offset? Is it amount of paste? Paste height?
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 23 13:14:17 EDT 1999 | Steve Schrader
| Has anyone ever heard of testing solder paste quality by pasting a board and making a determination of the quality by measuring paste height and width after the board is pasted. Would you consider this a valid test for solder paste testing? | Mar
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 13 09:18:06 EST 2006 | sumxp
Certain paste mfg specify 6 hours paste thawing time to normalize the temperature. I am using solder paste softerner to spin the paste taken out from fridge for 9 minutes and measure the paste temperature in jar.It is around 26'c(same as the ambient
Electronics Forum | Sat Nov 08 07:05:12 EST 2008 | davef
Often, your solder paste supplier provides guideline on handling their solder paste. For instance: http://www.aimsolder.com/techarticles/tech%20sheet%20paste%20handling.pdf We have no relationship, nor receive benefit from the company referenced ab
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 09 05:06:09 EST 2012 | grahamcooper22
Is your solder paste deposit drying out? Or if the paste deposit is small or there is insufficient paste then the tack between the device and paste will be poor so it can easily come out of the paste during its placement or placement of other parts.
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 29 15:33:47 EDT 2000 | Dave F
5 Paste sticking to squeegee: Squeegee is heavily magnetized Some pastes stick more than ... Plastic squeegees stick more than metal Old metal squeegees stick more than new Paste needs to be worked Paste needs to be at room temperature Some fl
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 23 01:19:19 EDT 2006 | Ola
Yes, leadfree paste is dispensable, but there is a completely diffrent paste than one will use at the stencil printer in the line. This is a very tricky one to deal with. We use xxx lf-free paste in the line, but that paste will Not at all work at th
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 05 16:29:56 EST 2008 | raincity1
You are playing with fire; you evaluate and specify paste for your products/SMT line, when you start adding tacky flux or whatever to your paste you don't really know what you are then dealing with - it osn't what you evaluated. We use solder paste f
