Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 04 09:10:53 EDT 2003 | davef
With poorly cured mask: * Wave soldering: Expect to see thin wavy band of dross imbedded in the mask in the wave solder side. * Reflow soldering: Expect to see a pinto board where the two tones of mask are [1] normal color and [2] a lighter color, al
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 12 11:52:59 EST 2003 | Marc Simmel
I have encountered problems with a 90/10 tin-lead plated SMT component wicking all the solder paste off the pads on the substrate. Worst, the defect occurs randomly - adjacent leads may have 'good' joints, though heel fillets are poor. The solder pa
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 11 12:06:38 EST 2004 | Ventrista
Forgive me for opening a can o' worms but is anybody familliar with this organization? A little alarmist in nature, but I have to admit to the devastation I've seen! "The China Challenge: China is destroying the American manufacturing sector indust
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 17 10:08:17 EST 2004 | russ
Do you have a bake oven that will reach 200C? You could bring a batch of boards up to temp and then start the pluckin'. A sfar as the solder goes if you apply flux to the leads they remove very clean as far as solder goes. To remove the flux we pl
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 01 00:52:24 EDT 2005 | adlsmt
Depending on the connector you should be able to use a standard cheap arbor press with some cheap home-made tooling. Standard arbor presses typically have a rotating disc with cut-outs, remove this and put a decent quality stainless steel block in it
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 13 09:02:38 EST 2006 | chunks
Please, don't give em' a soap box to preach from. Now, back to No-Lead. Has anyone else out there thinking about the higher emmisions you're company will pump out due to higher temps? Just wondering. I can see the "No-Lead Brain Trust" sitting ba
Electronics Forum | Sat Sep 30 10:04:39 EDT 2006 | daxman
I found this pot, and tried adjusting it. It was already turned to its maximum, and the histogram did not look good. I tried replacing the board lamp and this helped the histogram a lot, but I am not able to get the bars centered in the green. The
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 12 12:08:30 EST 2007 | realchunks
Yes, you can ask for scrap boards, buy Dummy boards/parts or engineer off past runs. For this cost, I would profile, profile, profile. I would make/buy a dummy board. If you don't have one this thick, glue/ adhesive/ bolt some scrap boards togeth
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 24 09:09:40 EDT 2008 | jdumont
Hello all, we have been seeing a lot of issues with broken or open vias on a couple of our bare boards. We have two vendors make these for us and the issue is only with one vendors boards. We have stopped using them until we can figure out what is go
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 05 17:25:30 EST 2024 | ankitgun
My company recently acquired the Vitrox-V510 Optical Inspection Station, equipped with the 'V510 Series' software. However, I've noticed that the software appears to be outdated and doesn't meet modern standards. It lacks a comprehensive component li
