Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 10 16:00:43 EDT 2006 | samir
QE's are the guys that sit in meetings asking the process guys --- "Uhhmmmm....my pie chart here says that we have 11 solder shorts on U1 for the week. WHAT'RE YOU GONNA DO ABOUT IT?" Unfortunately, most QE's dress nice, are tall, have gelled slic
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 03 10:29:29 EDT 2020 | stephendo
Time. The virus does not last a very long time on surfaces. Not sure how long but I read that it does not live long on copper but does last on stainless steel. As far as I know the virus lives as well on gloves as it does on hands. So you still have
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 31 21:15:46 EDT 2000 | Dave F
From the SMTnet Library try: http://www.merix.com/resourcecntr/papers/osp.doc http://www.merix.com/resourcecntr/papers/hasl_alt.doc http://www.itm-smt.com/articles.html * "Organic Solderability Preservatives" * "OSPs - Better Living Through Modern Ch
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 17 16:36:04 EST 2003 | MA/NY DDave
Hi As DaveF notes there are many sources. In one of my lives, I used to generate this business for one of the really good outfits i.e NTCu in Bethlehem, PA and I know of several more. You probably already get NTCu's mailing if you have been in the
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 30 09:24:08 EDT 2005 | Slaine
we manufacture a range of ceramic parts that have silver termination,there is already a small leaching problem (absorption of the termination by the solder in liquid form)with Sn62 that we live with, having to implement unleaded solder they are norma
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 07 11:45:05 EDT 2005 | GEB
The camera on the head of my Universal GSM1 (1994/5 model) displayed interference, and then the live video from it went red. This has never happened before. I've tried re-starting the machine, wriggling the camera feed wires, cleaning the lens etc. D
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 13 17:52:13 EST 2008 | dingstinger
My name is James and live in Colorado. Through an interesting turn of events lately I have gotten back into repairing coined PCB metal stencils. I am in a differant industry but have come up with a proven way to fix imperfections in metal stencils. W
Electronics Forum | Sun Jan 09 19:34:06 EST 2005 | Bob R.
You're right that us in the automotive market are exempt, but that just delays the inevitable by two or three years. Our customers, especially Japanese, are pushing us to provide Pb free products in the '08/'09 timeframe so that the end customers ge
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 09 06:08:39 EDT 2005 | geb
I think it may be the card thats causing the problem. When both machines are set to display a live image, the faulty machine shows pink/red. When their cables are pulled out of the card the working machine shows grey/noise and the faulty machine stay
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 17 19:30:27 EDT 2000 | Boca
All of the above is good stuff. To add, I have seen this several times if the assembly is wavesoldered. Heat from the wave can partially reflow the top side SM solder joints and weaken them. To test, check joint strength before wave and then after
