Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 05 20:33:14 EST 2001 | davef
Could you be trying to find: Stevens Products 128 N. Park St E Orange, NJ 07019 973.672.2140 Ross Stevens? Dynamic Technologies (titanium cover w/ silicone jacket, pricey) Stevens makes a U-shaped strip of fiber-material that slips over gold fing
Electronics Forum | Thu May 02 09:33:30 EDT 2013 | 15009
Looking for advice on soldering lead free paste to a board with very heavy gold plating. I have learned from the Customer that this is HARD GOLD and that it is 10-20 Micro Inches Hard Gold over 100 Micro inches of Nickel. When we reflowed the solde
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 28 17:46:44 EDT 1999 | Gary Kemp
My company manufactures memory modules and I'm finding solder specs on the gold fingers following the reflow process. We are using a no-clean solder paste. The spec sheet warns against crossing the 140 degree C mark during the soak stage, preventin
Electronics Forum | Tue May 13 06:57:10 EDT 2003 | davef
Your vendor site is totally correct. 2Ag is an excellent solder, but it does nothing to prevent tin and gold from reacting chemically. An earlier poster is correct gold goes into solution in liquid solder very fast, less than a second. Gold and ti
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 31 14:51:31 EDT 2006 | bhu
Can anyone suggest a supplier for gold solution when replating gold fingers that had solder on them?
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 18 10:08:19 EDT 2006 | pms
kapton tape the gold fingers before reflow.........
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 12 07:42:56 EDT 2006 | brian.perry@suntroncorp.com
We are placing a gold plated device (LCC) to a NiAu PCB using a SnPb No-clean solder. We're noticing quite a bit of difficulty with reliable joints (intermittent connectivity) and if we have to rework a particular device, adjacent devices of this sa
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 03 19:44:34 EST 1999 | Russ
Hello all, I am in the process of converting our facility to noclean processes. So far I am experiencing troubles with soldering to gold finishes. The finish is an H.P. type1. The solder joints appear dull and grainy. They seem to be very strong
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 18 19:20:25 EDT 2006 | sharifudin
Actually we run lead free solder paste and the profile spec very tigh.I can't use capton tape due my product in panel form and save cost.I already verify conveyor,machine and tool free from dust and solder paste but the problem still remain.
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 20 03:00:53 EDT 2006 | reypal
If you are using SMT machine for component placement you may check your nozzle where in some cases solder paste stuck to it and during placement will easily get into gold pad area. otherwise you have use kapton tape in order not to expose those pads.
