Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 26 22:43:45 EST 2009 | davef
Questions are: * Can you use the part fabricator's specification of lead coplanairity as the basis for accepting this build? * Beyond the issue of acceptable deformation of the leads, how do you know that whatever you did to bend the two outer leads
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 12 13:17:00 EDT 2005 | patrickbruneel
To all smt neters, In many different threads I have tried to bring awareness of the dangers lead free alloys pose to the reliability of solder connections. Many times those warnings have been waved by unscientific reports (from lead free solder manu
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 30 09:10:48 EST 2002 | bob_smith
Hi Dave, Sorry about that. Specifically, I am referring to radial leads on a crystal. The leads are supposed to be gold plated but only 1/2 to 2/3 of the lead is plated. We bend the lead to form a foot which is soldered to a pad on the PCB. Normally
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 30 17:31:41 EST 2000 | Larry C.Dyck
i am looking for info on lead free solder screen printing
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 02 16:44:04 EST 2004 | Steve
Why bother, what do you want to go lead free for anyhow??:)
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 25 14:16:43 EDT 2007 | jsloot
Is anyone able to help me out on a typical aperture design for a castellated lead.
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 22 15:16:24 EST 2002 | rkevin
Bet your using tin/ lead plated components with a lead free Cu/Ag/Sn alloy. It leads to intermetallic cracking. Wow didn't anyone tell you to check the archives yet, It seems to be the answer given to everyone. Why have an interactive site if you alw
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 20 16:26:59 EST 2015 | emeto
There are a lot of lead testers out there. Just google it. I personally don't think you will find anything wrong, but for the pleasure of your customers buy one and prove it. I would also check the lead on the squeegees of your stencil printers and t
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 13 12:12:21 EST 2002 | Hank Sybesma
We are being asked to begin rework processes on boards that use lead free solder. Does anyone have any experience in the service field working with lead free?
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 20 10:00:25 EST 2015 | TM
Hello We are currently cleaning stencils from both process (PbSn and lead free) in the same cleaning machine. A customer is concerned about cross contamination of lead between stencils. Is there any test kit or tool that you can suggest to test the