Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 19 10:18:44 EST 2007 | Simon C
Hi, We have at DEK printed paste through a Pumprint stencil onto clinched leads, but there will be limitations depending on the product. If you can send a sample loaded board to me indicating where you want paste deposits then I can certainly take a
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 07 07:36:11 EST 2007 | jax
mk, Should I read into the fact that you posted this on a sipad website? You could always add an etch process to you stencil design to gasket around the raised mask locations. It is currently done when additive etch's/trace's are used. The extra $20
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 16 14:14:07 EST 2007 | wrongway
we use A EKRA X5 it can use A pad our the fiducial I generaly use A pab becuse most of our stencil don't come with the fiducials on them and our boards our HASAL and the fids our domed most of the time the smt pads work better for me
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 28 11:43:20 EST 2007 | realchunks
Marcin, Think outside the box. If you are glueing the SMT part down, why not have an aperture cut in your stencil (or recut a stencil) between the SMT part and thru-hole. Wave solder hates SMT glue. This will get rid of your solder short problem
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 02 16:26:57 EST 2007 | Steve
1- Thickness 0.005" 2- I usually reduce 50% of the thermal pad, but it also depend on original size of thermal pad somehow I have to either create window panel or crosshatch otherwise component wil get wimming during reflow. Hope this will help. Reg
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 08 18:39:06 EST 2007 | elias67
Stencil Thickness should be .005" A reduction along with cross hatching is a must for the center pad to reduce paste volume as well as to assure even paste deposit while printing on a large pad. With out the cross hatch, the squeegie will most like
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 24 02:56:12 EDT 2007 | chrispy1963
If the PCB you are using is a HASL pad finish and is a leaded assembly, we use homeplate pads with a 5 mil stencil. If the circuit has Enig finish and is PB-Free then we use 1:1 apertures with a 5 mil stencil Either method should provide no solde
Electronics Forum | Tue May 22 12:27:04 EDT 2007 | cyber_wolf
I would consider calling Kester and telling them they need to send their people out. I could not really see mesh size being an issue on anything 20mil and above. There are several other issues that can cause aperture clogging as well...: Incorrect
Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 23 11:41:34 EDT 2007 | grantp
Hi, We use 1:1 for 1 mm BGA and it works fine. We used it at 4 thou laser cut stencils when we had a manual stencil printer, but have moved to 5 thou with the DEK and it works ok. We originally went to 4 thou because of paste release, but the DEK
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 13 12:47:03 EDT 2007 | bschreiber
There are many threads regarding stencil cleaners. Here is a recent one: http://www.smtnet.com//forums/index.cfm?fuseaction=view_thread&CFApp=1&Thread_ID=10557&#Message42748 Regards, Bill Schreiber Smart Sonic Corporation E-mail: Bill@SmartSonic.
