Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 04 16:55:32 EDT 1999 | Doug
| We are installing a new reflow oven and I have been told that we do not need to vent the exhaust out through the roof since we have a false ceiling. All that is required is to vent above the false ceiling and that the air exchange is great enough t
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 22 13:00:12 EDT 2005 | slthomas
"His opinion was that you could never achieve 500cfm, even with a jet engine attached, as the outlet on the oven was too small..." I had that experience with a washer that blew steam out of the entrance. He said we'd collapse the pipe before we ever
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 21 20:29:54 EDT 2000 | Dave F
Tanx Beyond keeping one in hot water, I found that this subtile approachs virually assures that you don't get promoted to the point that you get an opportunity to ruffle the feathers of the pimadonnas. Musta breathed too much flux fumes!!! Don't
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 15 16:58:11 EST 2001 | mparker
The only way I know of waving the bottom side with SMT parts installed without epoxy would be to use a masking media, Kapton Tape, wave pallet that keeps those parts from being susceptible to gravity once the connections are reflowed. If there is ano
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 14 11:29:44 EDT 2005 | davef
Check government agencies for recommendations. For instance: http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg248.pdf Flux flume: Follow the recommendations of your materials suppliers. For instance: http://www.frymetals.com/pdf_uploads/ organicacidcoredsolderwi
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 27 16:55:32 EDT 2005 | scombs
Does anyone one have any suggestions on what containers to use to put the solder (lead) into? We used aluminum bread pans last time since we wanted to reuse the solder and that was not such a hot idea. It took forever to tear the pans apart to get th
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 16 16:16:19 EST 2006 | fredc
We saw something like this in the machine shop years ago. Fumes from a soldering operation in the shop turned exposed iron and steel tools and the spindle on my Bridgport mill green. Can your supplier apply plating or a coating to the exposed parts o
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 20 07:59:50 EST 2006 | dpmilk
We saw something like this in the machine shop > years ago. Fumes from a soldering operation in > the shop turned exposed iron and steel tools and > the spindle on my Bridgport mill green. Can your > supplier apply plating or a coating to the >
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 27 11:03:06 EST 2006 | mapell
Tribol 1430 is the latest generation oil, 930 can't take lead free temps. Please see the following link.... http://www.castrol.com/castrol/productdetailmin.do?categoryId=82958955&contentId=6004371 If your getting alot smoke and residue, reduce the
Electronics Forum | Tue May 23 12:23:19 EDT 2006 | stepheniii
I worked for a company that had an industrial nurse come in and talk to us about lead and saftey. Basically she told us in no uncertain terms that we had nothing in the facility that would come close to producing the temperature required to have lea
