Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 25 06:15:41 EST 2002 | hany_khoga
Hi There: We have a wavesolder m/c with foam fluxer. I want to know: - When we do not run the machine, how to keep the fluxer porous cylinder in a good condition? knowing that we use no-clean flux. Is it the same when we stop for a few days or wee
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 17 11:31:39 EDT 2004 | Cal
Hello All- I need to replace my Foam flux aerator in my wave soldering machine and need a source. The "Stone" Size is 38x25mm @ 3um. If any one has a source thanks in advance. OBTW- this wave not a "Name Brand" machine (i.e. Eltrovert). Cal
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 01 08:27:29 EST 2006 | Chunks
I haven't seen a hydrometer used in years. Are you still foam fluxing? There used to be automatic units available, but with the advent of the spray fluxer, they may have dried up. If you are still foam fluxing with alcohol thinner, place ping pong
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 25 12:55:17 EDT 2006 | russ
Definitely better than foam!! I personally love the sonoteks. They do not really use a "nozzle" by the way. The flux is pooled on U.S. head and it atomizes it and then you have air spray to form proper spray pattern, If you are using Water soluble
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 04 10:48:25 EDT 2007 | pjc
Indium Corp. has some, 3549-HF and 3590-T, both are OK for foaming. Most of the better performing newer fluxes require spray application for best performance. Alpha, Kester and others have wave fluxes too. http://www.indium.com/products/circuitboar
Electronics Forum | Mon May 07 11:08:13 EDT 2007 | gregoryyork
Are the pallets hot and killing the foam head as they pass over or is the air pressure on the air knife toi high travelling back along the board killing the foam. If these are OK make sure you have sufficient back flow onthe wave and you are draining
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 13 13:10:26 EDT 2007 | mefloump
Thanks everyone for the input. I think in our case Dave was correct in saying the temperature was the most evident casue to our foaming problem. I found out today from our maint. techs that temp. control has been an issue recently and now we know wha
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 28 16:02:05 EDT 2012 | allwave
We had a similar problem with foam in our inline cleaner (TD). The problem were the solder paste flux residues. Boards went straight from SMT to Wave process and then washed. Anyway we changed the solder paste and problem solved. Are you using saponi
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 03 15:30:00 EST 2015 | ttheis
We've started off with Kester 951 'no-clean' so far which is alcohol based I believe. It seems to do very well with foaming, activation and low residue, but if we can move to water based and get good results that would be great. The 951 flux and thin
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 18 19:31:33 EST 2023 | kojotssss
Surely somewhere the cleaning or rinsing liquid gets to the other chamber. It is possible that the chemical migrates to the flush or flushes the chemical into the chamber. I have had a similar situation, high foam, injection vertical spray offline st
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