Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 07 04:29:40 EDT 1999 | Dylan T. Kenny
Hi all. I have some experiance in regular electronics, but the hardest part for me was always the soldering, so I am very intrested in SMT. So what would be the best way to get started in SMT? I would prefer not to have to spend alot of money, but
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 06 10:31:05 EDT 1999 | Chris May
Hopefully, everybody suffers from solderability of SOT-23 devices and I would like to know how everybody else resolves this problem. Historically, here, we have always gone for 6 thou stencils. I found that going to an 8 thou stencil improved the sit
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 06 09:40:49 EDT 1999 | Mark Quealy
I have an adhesive dispenser in my workcenter but I rarely use it. I've replaced this process with wavesolder pallets for bottom side PTH soldering, ocassionally gluing parts left exposed by the pallet. So I was thinking of selling the dispensing equ
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 06 20:42:50 EDT 1999 | Mike Cooper
Yes. We use high speed dispensing (PanasonicFA)as an integral part of our PCB assembly. Our business is automotive electronics and our typical product is 2-sided smd with some through hole. We assemble topside first, through hole, then bottomside. Th
Electronics Forum | Sun Sep 26 11:54:06 EDT 1999 | Earl Moon
| i had a problem here, during the wave soldering process, we apply a water soluble mask on the gold finger to protect it from contamination. But after washing, there is still some mask left on the gold finger. | Can anyone pls advise is there any pa
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 23 20:23:58 EDT 1999 | Dave F
Jackie's posting recently and responses to it got me to dondering. First, recollecting, we bought an IR rework station a couple million years ago. It had a IR source on a stand, a bunch of lenses, and Reynolds aluminum foil for shielding near-by co
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 23 20:57:13 EDT 1999 | Dean
| Jackie's posting recently and responses to it got me to dondering. First, recollecting, we bought an IR rework station a couple million years ago. It had a IR source on a stand, a bunch of lenses, and Reynolds aluminum foil for shielding near-by
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 23 09:28:49 EDT 1999 | Earl Moon
| | Hiya, | | | | Could anyone please suggest recommended manufacturers of | | IR rework stations for the removal of various SMT comps. | | | | Cheers | | | Why IR ? Ok, I�ve seen only one but that thing burnt the PCB before the solder was meltin
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 30 06:47:51 EDT 1999 | park kyung sam
| My stencil thickness is 6 mil and we got qfp's with fine pitch. | how many percent should i reduce my stencil aperture using a 6 mil stencil for 0.5 mm pitch and 0.4 mm pitch ? | | thanks | we have placed 16 mil components for 3 years. why don't
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 21 11:28:26 EDT 1999 | Dave F
| I've had some trouble pasting a test board for a MicroBGA trial. Most of the paste remains in the stencil apertures. | The stencil is 6 mil thick, laser cut and electo-polished. | The apertures are 12 mil in diameter with 20 mil pitch. | We are usi
