Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 24 16:05:14 EST 2003 | pdeuel
Kapton tape is heat resistant to tempratures accociated with wave solder process. If your process is not no clean then masking compound will work.
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 30 18:52:22 EDT 2004 | RicardoF
what about 4 cm of kapton tape on each Thermocouple?
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 18 10:08:19 EDT 2006 | pms
kapton tape the gold fingers before reflow.........
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 11 10:10:12 EDT 2007 | slthomas
Put "attach thermocouple" in the search box above and search "forum". Lots of hits there.
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 29 11:23:27 EDT 2022 | dontfeedphils
I typically use kapton tape when I need to mask off some apertures.
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 17 13:05:05 EDT 2002 | stepheno
On the Iron shaft? Why not on the connector to be protected. Actually now that I think back, I seem to remember seeing Kapton tape used on a part in a similar situation, but that I believe was a rework situation. Putting Kapton tape on every assembly
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 11 10:07:30 EDT 2007 | jdumont
Search the archives here for info. There is lots of posts on this. Short answer is Kapton isn't the best solution. Try aluminum tape or conductive glue if you don't feel comfortable soldering with high temp stuff.
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 07 16:10:44 EDT 2000 | Chris McDonald
Kapton Tape should not leave a residue. But Ive seem cheap Kapton do that. Anyways I have gotten a stencil cleaner soldevent to clean off tape residue (Multicore has a good one) It will meet IPC. Chris
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 18 11:50:42 EDT 2000 | Brian W.
I have been using aluminum tape to attach thermocouples lately. I got some when I ordered new thermocouples from KIC. I ran some comparisons using high temp solder and the tape, with no difference. You cut a small square of the tape (approx 1/8" s
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 24 15:14:48 EST 2022 | joshsvoboda
The thermocouples were attached with a square of aluminum tape holding the probe to the part joint. Kapton tape was used to secure the aluminum tape to the board surrounding but not covering the probe. We are using a X5 KIC profiler with the 2G sof
