Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 21 13:20:16 EDT 2005 | patrickbruneel
If spacing is not to small you could use a temporary peelable mask used in wave soldering. Or have your PCB manufacturer screenprint a peelable mask on for you. These suggestions are only if the mask needs to be removed, If not permanent solder mask
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 05 14:45:14 EST 2000 | Hoyt Moore
Does anybody know how to remove solder mask from pads that were masked over.
Electronics Forum | Sat May 29 10:32:23 EDT 2010 | isd_jwendell
I use 3M 218 fine line masking tape for masking SR conformal coating.
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 19 13:02:49 EDT 2013 | caurbach
We've used masking tape and peelable (pink) mask to mask our boards before conformal coating for a long, long time. This is a huge time sink, and increases our lead times (particularly because of the cure time for the pink mask). What are other com
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 02 20:47:22 EDT 2001 | davef
Cuppla questions for ya ... Where are the shorts [above the mask or between the mask and the laminate]? On the board, what material is between the copper traces and the mask? What type of solder mask(s) used by your suppliers? What are they using
Electronics Forum | Sat Aug 14 17:39:37 EDT 1999 | Gerry S.
One of the DFM suggestions I've seen is to remove the solder mask web, i.e. the mask between pads on 20-mil QFP devices. The rational is that if the mask is thicker than the pad the mask can prevent the stencil from making intimate contact with the
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 09 16:58:30 EST 2001 | davef
Go for it!!! You were unspecific, but adding mask to a completed board could cause: * Increased paste thickness, if you have double thickness of solder mask. * Wrinkled and lifted solder mask under the component, if the solderability protection of
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 14 12:55:07 EDT 2008 | arminski
I have a board with the above problem from our PCB supplier. After they applied the solder mask and run the PCB's to HASL process, the solder mask bubbled on one side of the PCB making the solder mask thickness higher and PCB looking awkward. They s
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 02 21:24:27 EST 2000 | Dave F
Glen: As I mention in an earlier response in this thread, I think someone at Steve's plant (or may be in his packaging spec for the fabs) is doing something to leave a residue, but I'm also thinking solder mask ... ENIG can be applied before or aft
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 02 21:24:27 EST 2000 | Dave F
Glen: As I mention in an earlier response in this thread, I think someone at Steve's plant (or may be in his packaging spec for the fabs) is doing something to leave a residue, but I'm also thinking solder mask ... ENIG can be applied before or aft
