Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 10 13:36:48 EDT 2000 | Bob Willis
I recently have been examining multilayer board failures. They are the classic inner connection failure between the foil and the through hole plating which I have not seen in many years. Has any one experienced any issues recently specifically relati
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 | Fri Aug 04 10:08:18 EDT 2000 | John Thorup
Zactly...what type and size of component. Pressure sensitive or heat seal cover tape? Manufacturer or service house taped? One or all manufacturers/distributors. Are the components in the right size tape? Reasonably recent production? Are they rea
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 11 09:32:54 EDT 2000 | danielm
Our company is in the process of doing a modification to a board that requires running 3 wires. We would like to use tape dots over liquid adhesive because of the ease of removal and no mess. Can someone give me some manufactures of the tape dots? I
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 29 12:36:10 EDT 2000 | Gary
You might try your search with the words Adhesive Dispenser. We recently evaluated machines from Asymtek, a Nordon company, Camalot, and Zmation, and GPD. There are several others. One consideration in the scenario you described is to make sure th
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 22 16:48:17 EDT 2000 | MikeF
Most RTV's depend on atmospheric moisture to cure. You can put them in an oven with a pan of water and that will speed up the cure. I'd suggest about 150 to 180 degree F, time period to depend on the thickness of the RTV. You'll have to do some tests
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 07 17:17:55 EDT 2000 | Dave F
Ashok: You should select and use low residue tapes. But ya know, ya go out and research a great tape and if yer not careful, the buyer will second source ya and (surprise) ya got residues again. We have found that Lemme say this about Katon tape
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 20 15:48:52 EST 2000 | Shane Lay
We are planning on converting to a no-clean soldering chemistry and will need to replace our water soluble liquid solder mask as a result. Does anyone know of a dispensable, "peelable" solder mask I can evaluate? It would be nice to find one that i
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 03 16:11:07 EST 2000 | cpitarys
Yes it is Ok and some folks ae doing it now, but unfortunatly IPA may not be the best solvent for this application. Take a small vial of the ipa and put some of your smt adhesive into it, shake it up and watch what happens, now step this up onto a l
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 20 15:39:31 EST 2001 | fmonette
To my knowledge, the 40C was established as the maximum "safe temperature" for all tape and reel packaging. The actual specs may vary somewhat for different types of reel, pocket-tape, cover-tape but you must be concerned with the cover tape adhesive
