Electronics Forum | Fri May 08 16:30:59 EDT 1998 | Chrys
| I am running boards with gold fingers on a pallet for | masking purposes. The pallets worked fine for a while | but know the gold fingers are getting solder on them. We | have tried everythin: new pallets, cleaning the pallet | and board to be s
Electronics Forum | Tue May 19 08:48:05 EDT 1998 | Aric Parr
| | I am running boards with gold fingers on a pallet for | | masking purposes. The pallets worked fine for a while | | but know the gold fingers are getting solder on them. We | | have tried everythin: new pallets, cleaning the pallet | | and boa
Electronics Forum | Wed May 06 15:05:00 EDT 1998 | Justin Medernach
| | Dear Freinds, | | DOES ANY ONE OF YOU WILL BE KIND ENOUGH TO GIVE SOME INPUT ON DOUBLE SIDE REFLOW OF COMPONENTS WHAT ABOUT BOTTOM SIDE COMPONENT HOLDING DURING 2ND SIDE REFLOW? ANY IDEA OTHER THAN USING SLDERPASTE WITH OFFSET MELTING POINT, EPOX
Electronics Forum | Tue May 05 13:29:08 EDT 1998 | Chrys
| Does anyone have info on the rotary chip wave(compare/contrast to z wave.....)? John, In my humble opinion, rotary chip waves are the best thing since forced convection. Great coverage; never clog. And here's a really cool perk: the rotary chip w
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 14 09:01:36 EDT 1998 | Justin Medernach
| We are having some difficulty soldering a 240 pin Altera device. We use Alpha WS-609, a very generic profile for that solder paste, and a 6 mil stencil with laser cut apertures (1:1 ratio). This is a 20 mil pitch device (aperture size is 10 mils X
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 08 11:30:03 EDT 1998 | mpark
Clint, You may want to call KJ Marketing Services, a Canadian company that fabricates plastic laser cut stencil. They call it "Kepoch stencil" This material was originally developed by Dupont, and patented and marketed by KJ. It was available for
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 07 14:37:14 EDT 1998 | Chrys
Be careful about the material you choose. All the materials out there are basically glass-filled epoxy composites, but they are different blends with different fillers. Some of them have carbon in the matrix to make them ESD safe, but it also short
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 25 19:31:13 EST 1998 | Earl Moon
| | We are having some problems with "drawbridging" on 0805 film capacitors. | | We have already reduced the pad width from .050" to .040" based on input | | from vendor. Defects appear to be random as far as location on the PWB and direction | | o
Electronics Forum | Sun Mar 29 15:42:05 EST 1998 | Michael Fogel
| | | We are having some problems with "drawbridging" on 0805 film capacitors. | | | We have already reduced the pad width from .050" to .040" based on input | | | from vendor. Defects appear to be random as far as location on the PWB and direction
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 30 07:44:12 EST 1998 | Earl Moon
| | | | | We are having some problems with "drawbridging" on 0805 film capacitors. | | | | We have already reduced the pad width from .050" to .040" based on input | | | | from vendor. Defects appear to be random as far as location on the PWB and d
