Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 06 03:54:57 EST 1999 | Chris May
Hi Russ, I have a similar situation. I have been told that this can be caused by the nickel, over which the gold is plated, can result in suspect joints, embrittlement etc. Some joints can even be weak and broken without much force on some of my boa
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 31 13:23:37 EDT 2004 | frankracine
Thanks Ken for your reply. Concerning OSP, there are a few negative points that I must considered for our application. I've read all the following points in an Entek document. Never test it. - If you have a miss print and you clean the PCB, the co
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 18 20:10:09 EDT 2000 | Dave F
Hey Bud: Thanks for the response the other day. We currently use "Jeff�s Method #2: The Drummel Tool." Short answer to your brother is ... yes, probably. Expanding a bit: � It would be surprising not to use a flux to help reflow the solder balls
Electronics Forum | Sun Nov 08 15:27:25 EST 2015 | davef
Thinner: Flux thinner, NOT paint thinner We kept a spare stone in thinner in inventory. We cut PVC pipe to size, cap in one end, screw thread on the other, stone inside, filled with flux thinner and covered with a screw cap. I don't remember who we
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 08 12:39:39 EST 2016 | deanm
We have a name brand aqueous batch cleaner that uses a chemical and DI water to clean ROL0 flux from our PCBs. It does ok most of the time for SMT boards and we want to include through hole assemblies as well which should be a better cleaning process
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 05 15:35:19 EDT 2018 | davef
Paste sticking to squeegee: * Squeegee is heavily magnetized * Some pastes stick more than ... * Plastic squeegees stick more than metal * Old metal squeegees stick more than new * Paste needs to be worked * Paste needs to be at room temperatur
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 22 17:32:34 EST 2004 | davef
Assemblers often assume that the board and component suppliers provide them with clean product. This was not a problem when everyone used water washable fluxes, because the water washing used to clean the flux residues also cleaned the board and com
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 02 09:51:38 EST 1999 | Justin Medernach
| Hello Everybody: | | I am in urgent need of some information regarding the reflow profile for a flip chip wafer. Would the reflow conditions along with the flux used affect the appearence of the solder joints. | | We are witnessing dull solder j
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 19 02:24:40 EST 2001 | ianchan
Did I mention, we tried to use the same WS flux formulae to brush-cover the affected flex-PCB pads, and subject it to another round of water-wash, followed by oven-baking, and it still doesn't help abit? Oven bake : 100 deg-C, approx 15~30mins (manu
Electronics Forum | Sat Jan 25 20:17:40 EST 2003 | ramanandkini
We are soldering a 8 pin TTL chip on to a CEM1 board that has a hot air level soldering. We use no clean soler paste for the reflow process. Now the customer wants us to clean since he is afraid of flux attracting the dust. We have some SMT LEDs that