Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 27 09:09:36 EST 2006 | davef
Silver on your copper or brass part is a solderability protection. The silver diffuses into the solder and you solder to the base metal, either the copper or brass in your case. Soldering to copper is well known. The issues are soldering to brass
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 19 20:15:39 EST 2001 | davef
Now, that is one thickass board!!! The rant first: If our �board supplier changed our board surface finish on� anything without our approval, the board supplier would be an �X�. Life has enough surprises. And of all the flat finishes available, h
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 02 10:24:35 EDT 2004 | dj_jago
Greetings from the UK: I have been quite fortunate to lead (no pun intended) our company towards lead free sooner rater than later. One of our customers produces a product which is refurbushed every 6 months or so and sent back into the market. A
Electronics Forum | Sat Aug 21 12:13:17 EDT 1999 | Brian
| I am being asked, by my vendor and Purchasing people about converting from Tin/lead pads on P.C.B's to Electroless Tin Plating. | Can any one tell me what I have to change in my SMT | process (paste, reflow, etc) If any? | I ran one P.C.Boar
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 18 12:28:33 EDT 2005 | davef
We've never heard of it either. Stained glass widow people use varous types of copper and brass tape / foil in their work. A widely used suppler of this tape is Venture [ http://www.venturetape.com ]. They may be able to help. We're not sure how
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 05 04:30:02 EST 2017 | jan_pedersen
You find good information in IPC-4554 that includes recommended total Sn thickness and recommended free Sn. It refers to how much usable Sn is needed to meet coating durability categories defined in J-STD-003. As example, if you need 6 months shelf l
Electronics Forum | Mon May 13 11:17:57 EDT 2002 | genny
I think for our company, the reason we have not yet tried it is two fold. One - we are just barely starting to see a need on a new product under design for a flat finish, so currently we don't use any of the really flat finishes available. Two - Silv
Electronics Forum | Fri May 15 21:59:42 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| Hi, | There has been a lot of disputes in our company | about changing present HASL to another Finishing | which can provide more flatter pad surface in fine | pitch applications. ( perhaps Ni/Au, OSP ) | The target is to reduce solder defects, t
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 18 12:20:16 EDT 1999 | John Thorup
| Now don't everyone jump on this at once, but it seems time for me to send out copies of my not even close to being dated copy of an article about HASL. Though it was published in 1992, in Printed Circuit Fabrication Magazine, and it got rave review
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 26 11:04:53 EDT 1999 | Dave F
| | Earl said, in essence: | | | | | Justin is absolutely right ... | | | | | | Again, Entek is not much more than a flux coating ... | | | | | | Metallic coatings protect best, as we all know - especially those electroplated. Those coatings chemi
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