Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 10 03:14:19 EDT 2001 | winnifred
Steven, Dave is right, wash them away. Since it is RMA paste, you may need to have a saponifier to go for Semi-aqueous washing. Or you may want to contact your supplier for a cleaner to wash it away with some agitation ( ultrasonic). Mag.
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 18 02:05:30 EDT 2001 | winnifred
Steve, To clean the RMA processed boards, u hv to make sure u talk to the supplier first, then get the right saponifier and do semi-aqueous cleaning.
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 06 09:28:24 EDT 2002 | Hussman69
Sure do, it's from the paste that gets squeezed under your R's and C's. This paste is now on your mask and during reflow, wants to move off the mask. Unfortunatly, it follows the flux residue to the side of your component. An easy fix is to use th
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 31 10:06:37 EST 2019 | emeto
This one is easy. Go to 5mil stencil and reduce apertures in width. try to have 10mil aperture width and 10 mil distance in between. If you give us numbers we will be more precise.
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 21 01:32:20 EDT 2021 | yaxindatech
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Electronics Forum | Sun Sep 30 00:54:06 EDT 2001 | chinaman
Has anybody heard about solder wires for rework with a V-notch in order to avoid solder balls which might be caused by shooting flux when getting hot. The notch is as deep to reach the core so that the flux can expand easily. I can imagine the effect
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 01 03:46:57 EDT 2001 | wbu
Have never heard of solderballs during rework using solder wire. Noticed the tendency to have little balls of flux with too hot iron and lots of solder used for shields or massive cables to be connected. Seems to me a question of believe if it does
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 20 10:35:34 EDT 2001 | slthomas
David, I've thought about doing this also with no clean boards that were poorly cleaned following a misprint (and subsequently reprinted, populated, and reflowed) but have shyed away because of the potential for damage to components from the ultraso
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 12 10:32:59 EDT 2001 | Hussman
Wow, what a string of answers and nobody brought up the easiest way to eliminate solder balls. Yes, the paste being squished under the part does reflow and work it's way out to the side during reflow. I did a 5 week study on this (when I was a bori
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 04 17:21:22 EDT 2002 | jasonfang
I found solderballs are around chip components (on one side of middle area), I checked gerber data, solder paste of aperture on the stencil for these chip components have 5% reduction to solder land on PCB, shape of solder land are square, not home p