Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 13 00:05:28 EST 1999 | Dennis O'Donnell
I can't figure out why everyone is plating everything with gold. According to the J Standard, gold plating should be removed before soldering to the surface. The gold, when left on the surface to be soldered will contaminate the solder joint and ca
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 13 16:07:38 EST 1999 | Travson
Russ, Regarding your no clean soldering to gold. We have been doing that for about three years now. We have been using 62/36/2% silver solder paste. I have not done any thorough testing as to joint strength but the finish is shinier. It looks li
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 03 13:50:09 EST 1999 | Larry Johnson
I thought that you guys were going to change the site back to the way it was. Where you could read all the responces to a posting at once, without haveing to "click" on each individual responce. It wouldn't be that big of a deal, if the site ran qu
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 03 12:45:28 EST 1999 | Bill
I'd like to print out a forum item to fax to a friend who does not have internet access or email yet at his new facility, but no matter what I do to my printer set-up I cannot get the full page width to print. The right side of the message keeps gett
Electronics Forum | Sat Dec 04 10:12:55 EST 1999 | Michael Bryant
Bill, As Cunli said, there is a link at the top of each message page that will pop open a printer friendly version. Before we added that feature, the only solution was to print the page in landscape mode. The printer friendly version is not a fixed
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 06 08:20:47 EST 1999 | Bill
Mike - I had tried the "printer friendly version" before I sent my original message last Friday. The result may have been "printer friendly", but it wasn't very "reader friendly". All the words printed but the printout removed all the formatting so
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 06 10:04:53 EST 1999 | Michael Bryant
Bill, Thanks for the tip. There was an error in the printer friendly page for forum postings. We have repaired the formatting problem, so it will retain all of the paragraphs and indents that the original message contains. If you have other observat
Electronics Forum | Sat Dec 04 09:42:18 EST 1999 | Chris McDonald
Just as explained in a follow-up you are getting too much paste on the pad. The pad is probably the right size but you cant have your aperature the same size as your pad. What we have done is put a Cross in the stencil. This will reduce the paste and
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 07 22:05:19 EST 1999 | sin
Added to MARK suggestion, you should verify you xy table height also by using the meter listed in the maintenace manual. If everything is fine, then i suggest you should check the placement air kisses( can suck your component back up or release to q
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 08 23:53:35 EST 1999 | Mike Eskridge
Yes, there are several conveyor companies that make a conversion box for SMP1 to SMEMA and SMEMA to SMP1. Basically they are just to differant standards for cable conections between machines. SMEMA stands for Surface Mount Equipment Manufacturers Ass
