Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 30 21:12:32 EDT 2001 | davef
"Poor release" (paste hanging-up in the stencil holes) could have three main (or combination of) causes: 1 Equipment: Stencil is too thick. Specifically, a 6 thou stencil should be OK, providing you don�t violate the area and aspect ratios in the fi
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 30 10:44:37 EDT 2001 | hinerman
A few of the more common defects If bridging or insuffienct deposits occur on the printer, one of the first things to check is the tooling. Misplaced hard tooling pins or poorly designed fixtures have a nasty habit of breaking components on side
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 15 12:09:55 EST 1999 | Dave F
Steve: Continuing with Dan�s thinking, generally, "poor release" (paste hanging-up in the stencil holes) could have three main (or combination of) causes: 1 Equipment: Stencil is too thick. Specifically, your 0.006 should be OK, providing you don�
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 21 11:32:15 EDT 1999 | John Thorup
Larry Elaborating on the specific question, yes, the volatile solvents in the flux can and will evaporate. Evaporate completely in any reasonable amount of time? Probably not. What tends to happen is that the exposed paste dries on the surface and
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 17 18:33:51 EDT 1999 | Michael
| One problem we found was that when more than one person was working on the system at one time we had problems. For example one person working on the line computer, another on the machine computer and another on the VMPS system. That was usually a
Electronics Forum | Wed May 19 08:54:49 EDT 1999 | Wendy Casker
Hello, We have just received a contract to assemble some PCI daughter cards with the AMP Zpak style connectors. I am comfortable pressing connectors into backplanes, even double sided SMT, but would like any advice on designing a fixture to support
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 02 06:57:18 EST 1998 | Brian Pollitt
We're using Cimetrix Host Manager to communicate with MPM UP3000 printers specifically to capture measurement and system settings and error messages. It all works fine until the printer is taken off line. The GEMComm S/W on the MPMs PC (DOS) doesn't
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 12 01:35:10 EDT 1998 | P.L. Sorenson - Technical Consultant
| Hello all, welcome to the NEW home of SMTnet. We have been spending a good amount of time preparing for this switch, and we are curious about what you think. | What do you like/dislike? | Anything you'd like to see different? | Any other comments a
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 28 08:27:56 EST 2002 | davef
Don't be concerned. Brian and Neil don't allow us to link directly to email from SMTnet [even though from the way the link changes color you'd think you could. They do this to subjugate the huddling masses and lord the power of cold fusion over us.
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 01 13:09:24 EST 2004 | johnthor
We have also used the IIT Pro Plate II for many years. They sell a small storage cabinet (also overpriced) originally intended for drawing storage where the stencil foils hang in plastic envelopes. Another thing to consider with IIT is their $13 "sk
