Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 04 16:56:27 EST 1998 | Chris Lampron
| | We run stiffeners on all of our product through our wave solder process and most of our product through our reflow and adhesive cure oven. The problem is we continually put on and take off stiffeners because of poor reliability of stiffeners sta
Electronics Forum | Fri May 22 22:18:18 EDT 1998 | David Newman
Hello, I am looking for suggestions for cleaning pcb's after the routing (fabrication) process. Keep in mind that these pcb do not have components intalled on them yet. We have considered pre-drilling the routing plunge points, but cost and capacity
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 25 21:25:28 EDT 2004 | davef
First as a nit, your �substrate� is probably NOT copper. It�s probably FR4 fiberglass/epoxy. Substrate. Base Material. A supporting insulating material upon which parts, components, and elements are attached. Second, enough of that, on to your i
Electronics Forum | Sat Dec 09 08:32:25 EST 2006 | davef
Thoughts are: * Most board fabs have routers that can do this work. Can yours rework these boards? * Scrap the boards and start anew. Someone made a mistake. Cut your losses. * As a wild and crazy guy alternative, buy a router with a 45* bit from
Electronics Forum | Sun Dec 31 07:31:40 EST 2006 | davef
Thoughts are: * Eliminate solder spotting on gold fingers through process improvement in broard handling, printing paste control, and reflow recipe development. Search the fine SMTnet Archives for previous discussions. * Dispense or print a reflow te
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 09 08:45:31 EST 2007 | philkaz
I am in the R&D department at KIC. We have been making thermal profiling equipment for 20+ years. A standard circuit board is made from FR4 fiberglass. A typical solder reflow profile, whether leaded or unleaded, takes the board above the "glass t
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 04 09:44:59 EST 2008 | philkaz
Hello, I am Philip Kazmierowicz and I work with KIC, a Thermal Profiling company. We have done many lifetime experiments on Printed Circuit Boards over the years. The key thing to understand is that if the primary material of the board in FR4 fiber
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 27 12:51:32 EDT 2012 | cobham1
I have run 0.031 boards. One of the things you may want to look at is the speed of the oven. With 14 zones you may be going to slow with the board which could be the reason your boards are starting to bow. You might also think about adding stiffners
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 02 11:52:22 EDT 2023 | proceng1
We have these thin and flexible sheets of fiberglass that we sometimes use to send boards through reflow that can't ride the edge hold fingers. We've had these sheets for a decade at least and have no idea what they are or where they were purchased
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 30 12:14:40 EDT 1999 | John Thorup
| | We are wave soldering some fabs with a lot of unmasked trace area along the edges. The trace area is solid copper covered with tin / lead, no masking, no components along the edges, same on solder side and component side (goofy board design). I
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