Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 11 19:04:28 EDT 2007 | hakerem
Hi Shrek - Not sure why you think adjusting dwell time and preheats is a sales pitch, but I do appreciate your candor. These are proven, widely used techniques for attacking, eliminating and preventing the recurrence of blowholes. Since it is so ea
Electronics Forum | Sat Sep 08 08:55:24 EDT 2007 | davef
We expect to see a copper shadow along the edge of pads when soldering boards with organic solderability protection [OSP]. IPC-A-610 has defined this as acceptable for years. During early reflow stages, the flux in paste dissolves the OSP where ther
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 22 15:41:39 EDT 2007 | davef
Bruno The real question about your troop using Kester 951 wave solder flux on boards is: how is the flux applied and controlled. See, when you apply this flux with your wave solder fluxer, it is ideally applied in a metered fashion with your fluxer
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 06 14:39:52 EST 2007 | patrickbruneel
ERA to support industry on new reviews of all RoHS exemptions and addition of new substances Below the part from the article related to lead in solders. �The whole life cycles of substances should be considered and lead in solders provides a good e
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 19 14:44:54 EST 2007 | Paul M.
Kelca..... I don't think yer getting the picture here. These boards are supplied by the customer. They are "Labor Only" accounts. We have NO control of the PCB's or any of the parts for that matter. These Labor Only customers show up at the back doo
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 21 19:22:38 EST 2008 | davef
In your situation, the issue is the compatibility of your flux residues and the encapsulant that you choose. First, contact your encapsulant supplier for advice. They've likely been down this road with other customers and may be able so save you som
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 20 10:04:15 EST 2008 | slthomas
Yeah, it blows, but basically we toss it when it quits printing. We've never seen any visible quality issues we could attribute to recycling paste like this so we keep doing it. When we start doing BGA and X-raying stuff we'll take a closer look at w
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 28 21:01:09 EST 2008 | davef
Tony: Thanks posting information about your experience with strippers. First, why did you need to strip the entire board? Next, please clarify the following points to expand our knowledge of using Humiseal 1063 Stripper: * How long was the conforma
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 04 08:56:38 EST 2008 | tonyamenson
I talked to a solder paste chemsist and found out a few things. From above (Dave F) states a test for solder paste involving reflow on a non-wettable surface. Commonly known as the solder ball test this test is performed all the time by paste manufa
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 28 15:08:37 EDT 2008 | jmelson
Hello, all, I have been having problems with bent push rods on my Philips CSM84. I have caught it a couple times when it happened, but it happens so fast I still don't know exactly what the sequence is that causes this. The push rod is clipping a
