Electronics Forum | Wed May 19 16:35:18 EDT 2010 | stepheniii
How thick is the stencil? Also what type of paste? We have a nice little microscope that has gradients on the lens so we can measure whether an aperture is 8 thou or not. Almost always it is but then we buy from a couple of good stencil suppliers.
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 16 10:36:44 EST 2018 | ameenullakhan
Thanks Rob, You are right. unique for us here might be common some where else. Will work more closely with our solder paste and stencil suppliers.. :)
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 16 18:19:10 EST 2000 | Dave F
We want to improve our process for accepting SMT solder paste stencils received from suppliers. Our process: * E-mail CAD aperatures to supplier with "readme" giving specific fabrication instructions to the supplier. * Receive stencil from the suppl
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 10 03:40:41 EST 2020 | jakapratama
Hi, Some nano coat supplier said that you can drop water to the surface where the coating supposed to present before to check. If it's beading, it's still there. I take it that you meant by self in-house wiping of coating, yes? Stencil supplier nan
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 08 15:19:29 EST 2017 | ilavu
Can you share your stencil manufacturer? We have been using Fineline Stencil(FLS) since 2010 but [I'm unhappy]**. They don't want to honer there own word in writing. We are looking for better and honest stencil supplier. Thanks, ** I edited this
Electronics Forum | Mon May 15 10:46:51 EDT 2000 | PhilB
You should also consider intrusive reflow (aka pin in hole relow� but be aware of the thermal possibilities of your through hole components and ask support from a stencil supplier that has done this before. Hope this helps, Phil
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 30 13:00:14 EDT 2011 | scottp
I've been using a DEK Vectorguard frame for a couple months now and like it a lot. It uses air to clamp/unclamp the foil and both DEK Vectorguard and Alpha Metals Tetrabond foils fit the frame. Just about any decent stencil supplier sells Vectorgua
Electronics Forum | Sat Aug 05 09:22:34 EDT 2000 | Dave F
Stencil, Step Down. A stencil of varying thickness that allows printing different amounts of solder paste or adhesive. Most stencil suppliers make stepped stencils Step stencils are used when there are fine pitched device amoung coarse pitched dev
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 03 15:00:48 EDT 1999 | Deon Nungaray
.020" pitch spacing. Which have yielded my process excelent results. My main stencil supplier is I-Source in Irvine, CA and has pretty much standardized on 100% lazer cut stencils for competetive pricing. Hope this helps. Deon Nungaray SMT Mfg. Eng
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 07 13:02:30 EDT 2003 | kmorris
Sorry, I forgot to include the stencil thickness. It is 5 mil. Thanks for the input, everbody. I just checked with our stencil supplier & I thought that Electro-polish was standard with lazer, but I now find out it is not. Our stencil did not get
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