Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 05 15:01:50 EST 2000 | Brian E. Steelglove
A sharp knife and a steady hand. Sorry that is the only way I know because I have had to do it. Brian E. Steelglove
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 11 10:48:06 EDT 2008 | realchunks
Too much flux will spatter and can leave balls on either side. From your pix you may too little flux. Try turning up and see. Also try hand applying your alcohol based flux and running through. Will take away a few question marks.
Electronics Forum | Sun Jul 21 13:22:27 EDT 2019 | reckless
Get GC10 - the game changer: https://www.soldergamechanger.com/en/gamechanger.html They got a new model GC18 I am trying to get my hands on to see the improvements.
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 14 15:36:23 EST 2010 | tds
JBC Tools has a wire solder feed solder iron. You can control how much is dispensed to the tip. I have sold several of these to customers soldering wires in to terminals. The hand piece is bigger than the typical solder iron but it beats the alter
Electronics Forum | Sat Sep 21 23:38:06 EDT 2002 | ivanchu
I got one problem from my production line recently. One 0.5mm pitch QFP IC have been used on my PCBA. Actually, the defect was happened in randomly. Sometime, we got the fillet completely but sometime is not. The solder joint look like is good, but t
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 23 00:47:00 EST 2000 | Donnie DeYoung
Mark, If you find out anything please let me know. The only way we do it is by hand using a slotted spoon and dumping the lead and dross into a 3 gallon bucket and having it taken off site and recycled. It's a pain in the neck, and I don't like we
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 18 16:14:45 EDT 2023 | daniel_stanphill
I remember having seen an ad on LinkedIn or somewhere that showed a handheld pen capable of manual deposits even on 0402 and 0.4mm fine pitch pads. I have been trying to search for it today and am seeing some comparable products but nothing that look
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 31 08:10:38 EDT 1999 | Brian Conner
| I am building a board with T1/34 LED's in a 10X10 array there are 12 arrays in a panel. The LED's are body to body in the array, .1 spaced. The LEDS have been autoinserted on a Universal RAD III, so they are cut and clinched. The trouble I am havin
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 26 05:14:38 EDT 2013 | anilw2006
We had a solder joint problem in gold plated PLCC68 ic. We do double sided reflow process with Cookson OL107F paste. First we do top with paste and second with glue process.The solder joint shape and wetting looked normal.In the process of testing
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 08 21:00:24 EDT 2000 | Dave F
Shawn: You're correct most solder preform manufactures don't want to sell preforms without skinning you alive for tooling charges!!! Considering alternatives, can you print or dispense paste? It would be mucho cheaper. We've talked about using pa
