Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 13 20:39:04 EST 2000 | Dave F
Hello Dr. Fuzz, this is Dave. I'm right in the middle of giving myself an appendectomy and could use your advice on some of the finer points. Let's see, I've made a lateral cut across my stomach and for the life of me [heh heh] can't remember if th
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 21 20:41:32 EST 2003 | Raul
It is a common knowledge that sulphur and immersion silver finish on a PCB do not go together very well. We are seeing peaks of sulphur on some of our assemblies (with silver finish) and as expected we experience severe difficulties with processing t
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 08 17:42:34 EST 2000 | Dave F
Andre: I understand that SMTnet does not have this capability at this time ... ... but if someone was looking to add services to a new version of SMTnet, I'd like to see maybe 10M set aside as a communial posting area for images. In this, the imag
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 13 13:16:12 EST 2000 | Sal
Guys Has anyone had good or bad experiences with the ECD Oven/Wave rider piece of kit ? Before I ask my manager to break the bank to pay for this kit what I would like to know is what will it do for me ? but more importantly will it give the custome
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 06 21:09:47 EST 2000 | Dave F
That's cool that you used the Archive. Consider running a designed experiment on your board, using your flux and solder, the limits from the Archive, and on your machine to dial in the spread in dwell numbers you see in the SMTnet Archives to your s
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 26 17:58:49 EDT 2000 | Dave F
Steve: You make sense, but I don�t see where someone that's getting fitted for a cross is in much of a bargaining position. Oh, and you MUST charge full market 2� rates for your thoughts. We�ll have no submarket price offerings. Although, the Fai
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 28 08:09:09 EDT 2000 | Bob Thieda
We ordered and used Kapton stencils from KJ marketing for several months. The operators felt setup was considerably easier. Service and delivery was excellent. Ultimatly we discovered that although the see-through nature of the stencil made initial
Electronics Forum | Sat Sep 30 16:39:57 EDT 2000 | Geo
We reseantly considered purchasing the Meridian Series machine but we changed our mind. The reason for that was that Quad does not have to many installations of the Equipment, also the fact that hardly any of their field techs. have much training on
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 20 15:51:19 EDT 2000 | John
We are considering retrofitting our Vectra wave soldering machine with a hot air knife. I've run our problem board on a machine with this option and it does seem to work; however, there is a concern of component failure due to thermal shock. Is thi
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 20 12:43:40 EDT 2000 | rcroteau
RF pcb is all gold with no typical land patterns and multiple surface mount components sharing the same pad. IPC-610-B doesn't speak to inspection criteria. The problems I'm seeing are, insufficient solder, skewed components. Some of the pads have
