Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 08 17:49:19 EDT 2004 | gregoryyork
Knock off some balls and you may find it has a flat bottom to it were it has mechanically stuck to the solder resist usually seen under 60X magnification. Common with Liquid photoimageable resist (I know again) Best way to check resist cure is to pay
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 23 23:42:52 EDT 2004 | KEN
The LF pastes will have virtually NO wetting spread. This is normal. LF mobilities are virtually non-existant with SAC alloys. However, the addition of varrying amounts of silver can (and does) improve mobility but, this comes with a price (paste
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 30 04:17:03 EDT 2004 | loz
Screen printing glue is definitely easier and more repeatable than using dispense methods (my opinion). Depends a lot though on pcb design and component mix. Contact your stencil vendor and they will be able to suggest different apertures, such as li
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 06 11:52:45 EDT 2004 | Mike Konrad
You state that you need a washer for �pcb washer/cleaner for misprints etc� Is it only for misprints or is it also for post-reflow de-fluxing? I would not suggest that you utilize one machine for both applications. Misprints should always be cle
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 07 13:17:48 EST 2005 | bschreiber
3) There are several papers on the safety of cleaning PCBs and ICs using ultrasonic technology. The latest is in the October 2004 issue of SMT magazine by William Kenyon, "Why Not Ultrasonics?" Most of the studies have been performed by Dr. B.P. Ri
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 21 03:51:37 EST 2005 | abhirami
Solder paste thickness control is more important in SMT process. What controls do you have? I guess if everyone follows the critical control path, then there are always reduced problems. The issue is no one is perfect. Paste tends to be on the stenci
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 02 09:06:44 EST 2005 | russ
We use 10% reductions when either the aspect or area ratio will not be affected. We will utilize a 1:1 when necessary. We place a lot of those little Rnets down to 0805 size .5mm pitch and do not see any problems. We use 6 mil stencils almost excl
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 21 07:25:12 EST 2005 | cyber_wolf
We have lab sink in our SMT area that we use for washing off stencils and hand tools that are contaminated with solder paste. The sink has a float in it and when the water level reaches a certain point it pumps the main basin out through a filter th
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 08 08:35:44 EDT 2005 | Grant
Hi, What are you doing for reflow. Sounds like a cheap MYDATA TP machine second hand might do the trick, but don't know if it could do 0201 though. You can get a fairly ok manual stencil printer that might do the trick. We had one that had a linear
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 28 08:29:22 EDT 2005 | andymackie
If what you are talking about is "assembly materials", then consider the following: - Solder paste - Wavesoldering fluxes - Bar (for filling wavesolder pots) - Underfill (for TCE-mismatched CSP's and flip-chip) - Cleaning fluids (for post-reflow boa
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