Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 17 04:31:52 EDT 2008 | d0min0
Hello, tried searching the SMTnet archives, but not yet a clear answer - maybe there is not a one yet ? ;) last discussion I found is few years old so maybe there is a fresh view on that? Q: we want to prove that our proces is "clean" we use SAC30
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 17 17:34:03 EDT 2008 | paulv
Folks, I work in Supply Chain and was wondering if anyone in this forum knows a website where I could find recent market information such as industry average price for the major solder products such as lead free and tin lead bar and paste. With the r
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 19 12:48:29 EDT 2008 | ratsalad
From what I understand, the major reason Sn prices recently escalated was a crackdown on black market Sn mining in Indonesia, where most of our Sn originates. Add to that increased demand (not necessarily from RoHS, but from China, India, and other
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 19 15:05:20 EDT 2008 | patrickbruneel
Talking about lead-free idiocy. Here�s the result of what you get for being GREEN and paying trough the roof. Since the implementation of lead-free I don�t buy green shirts any more, because they charge me twice as much as the blue ones On the positi
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 18 14:23:08 EDT 2008 | rrpowers
I don't doubt about not really needing the computer upgrade. I've seen the same thing from them before. (Although it was a Speedline tech that originally told me about the PastePuck system.) Unfortunately we have custom software (4.1h) that goes w
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 20 18:39:30 EDT 2008 | cmckissick
I am not a big believer in these systems, unless you are doing a no-clean, multi-shift operation with minimum changeover. If you are a small batch shop, the amount of solder paste you end up wasting can actually be the same or more, if you are not r
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 20 20:57:44 EDT 2008 | rrpowers
Well, we are in fact doing a no-clean, multi-shift, very high volume, minimal changeover operation. We use up any paste long before it gets old. Because of the sheer volume any reduction in paste scrap for us is big money. We also are in a zero de
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 20 17:39:41 EDT 2008 | boardhouse
FSW, Another suggestions is if you have rail on your product and you are concerned about stress fracturing certain components you could add a routed slot to add relief in that area. So when you snap the rail off their would be no stress in that area
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 25 14:05:16 EDT 2008 | flipit
X7R >Z5U,Y5V. Y5Vs crack more than NPOs. Ceramic resonators crack often as well. I found that the chop style like the Fancord VPD5 is the lease stressful of the V-Score cutters. We have run as close as 0.025" to the edges with 0805s with no crack
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 26 16:12:46 EDT 2008 | jlawson
If you have jobs where you can not, there is a company in Japan that makes the best v-groove depanelers called TST, 'guru's in v-groove depanelising'. Their systems can be supplied to reduce stress on cutting to near zero compared to CAB and other lo
