Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 30 17:58:01 EDT 1999 | Boca
| My guess would be trapped flux continuing to be active after soldering. Is the tarnish there immediately after exiting the machine? Do you remove the mask and wash right away? If the solder is reflowing under the mask on the component side it wo
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 13 15:13:17 EST 2003 | ruggi
That's a good idea...and to add on to it, you could wash after the wave, too--it really doesn't matter. A question about this though--unless your Customer specifically requires "clean", no-clean flux whether it's ugly or not, is permitted by IPC,
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 30 14:35:35 EDT 2003 | clarkk
Hello all, We have received reports from two customers about electrical leakage on pcb assemblies that used Kester paste #HM531 (63/37) and washed with Kester 'Bio-kleen' saponifier and DI water. The leakage is such that when the boards receive power
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 25 02:21:50 EST 2004 | Jemal khaiar
Hi Dave As usual we always enjoy your resourceful & informative responses. We miss Mike and others but you are doing fine. As for Dreamy here are some links to Saponifiers article archives. There are a lot more to read. http://www.smtnet.com//forums
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 09 11:57:56 EDT 2004 | Chris Lampron
WA Engineer, If you are able to change over to OA instead of RMA, you can clean effectively with DI water. (I know that some Military contracts specify RMA) Most systems are designed to filter the waste water of ionized contaminants before dumping t
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 23 05:14:40 EDT 2004 | greg york
Hi Thomas Ever considered that this maybe HASL flux left on PCB as this is extremely hygroscopic and has heat transfer fluids that cannot be baked out unless you go to a temperature of around 600C. One way of testing is to leave iron tip on joint an
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 05 08:58:13 EST 2005 | davef
Q1. Is it enough to use only water while cleaning or is it necessary to use any additional chemistries and/or saponifiers as well? A1. It depends on: * Flux residues that you're cleaning * Standoff of the components * Cleaning technology [we've neve
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 14 09:42:36 EDT 2005 | saragorcos
Our facility helps customers clean no-clean soldered boards on a regular basis, and it definitely can be done but is a little more challenging than boards built with water soluble flux - one piece of advice I would give is to use low water pressure (
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 01 13:46:05 EST 2006 | Chunks
Sounds like a epididymis! It depends on your paste chemistry. You can't just slap any old saponifier in there. Most water based cleaners evaporate the water and you have to remove the dried paste. It's a bit messy, maybe that's why your's is over
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 02 10:22:13 EDT 2006 | SteveH
We are having issues with cleaning underneath leadless chip carriers due to their extreme low lying nature and I wondered if anyone else had any experience of this. Our process for years has been vapour degreasing with Triklone N, which works, but w
