Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 14 09:09:10 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| I am running composite fixtures on my wave solder machine and after about 500 passes each (1 month)they are showing serious signs of wear in that the composite surface is bubbling up and glass fibers are also starting to show. | The problem here
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 11 15:26:15 EDT 1998 | Upinder Singh
Dave, What exactly is the material used for making the fixtures? Upinder ====================== | I am running composite fixtures on my wave solder machine and after about 500 passes each (1 month)they are showing serious signs of wear in that the co
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 23 18:43:23 EDT 1998 | D.Lange
| I am experiencing a wave-soldering problem with a leaded capacitor - too much solder above the board!! The capacitor lead is .020" dia. and the hole size is .038". This only occurs on the negative lead of the component. The capacitor is also axi
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 31 08:55:09 EST 1997 | justin medernach
| Has anyone had any experience with thermal shocking | and cracking of SMD capacitors during the rework process? | My company was advised to preheat capacitors to 125 C | at a rate of 2 C/sec before replacing them onto boards. | Would this maybe
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 17 20:33:05 EST 2002 | ianchan
Hi, Can anyone help explain the benefits/disadvantages of bareboard pcb baking, as part of the pre-heat conditioning, before the bareboard pcb use in SMT production run? The pcb board is 200mm x 240mm panelized pcb board, and has 28 smaller pcb boa
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 24 19:12:19 EDT 2002 | russ
I may be stupid but what exactly do you mean by "foil" on both sides? Are you having trouble with top flow? bridging? Are you using water soluble or noclean? Are you also waving SMT components? Anyway, normally the solder temp should be 460 - 500 F(
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 31 17:25:39 EDT 2002 | sueph
Dave, thanks for the reply. These boards have metal plating covering 99 percent of both primary and secondary surfaces. The only places without the metal plating are the extreme outer edges and about an 1/8 inch surrounding the plated holes. We do
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 18 16:24:05 EDT 2002 | russ
Big BIG BIGG wave with a lot of preheat capability both top and bottom. You may need to exceed the standard "100 C" top side preheat to 120C or so (be aware of any topside SMT going into reflow over the wave). A spray fluxer with very fine atomizati
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 05 11:04:27 EST 2002 | slthomas
They're IR, bottom side only. Frankly wave solder is not my forte (there are those that would claim nothing is), but I've personally been tasked with developing a process to do reliable, high volume bottom side SMT, so I'm drawing a lot from the tec
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 27 14:16:46 EST 2003 | russ
i have done this thousands of times. You are correct about no preheat, however it never seemed to be any issue for us. You do have to make sure that you do not expose any SMT comps. to the solder or they will become heat stressed/fractured. Connec
