Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 21 08:25:23 EDT 2004 | fcox
What are the most common solvents/processes being used to clean paste from metal stencils? Any heat?
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 22 07:35:02 EDT 2004 | davef
Most glue suppliers recommend chemicals and methods for removing the product from stencils. What does yours suggest? Further, search the fine SMTnet Archives for background discussion.
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 01 08:34:06 EST 2004 | fcox
What I am really after is what is recommended to clean the paste from the stencil. What works best? What is really used in common practice?
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 12 16:13:48 EDT 1998 | Alex Ondi
:Try American Plating Systems for Chem Etch Equipment, LPKF (Germany)for Laser cutting systems (A Laser in Oregon is the local distributor for LPKF), Lumonics is another option for Laser cutting systems. Probably should have been more specific. | W
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 05 17:29:53 EST 2004 | Steve Stach
Most metal stencils today are cleaned with a water based cleaning solution. 3 choices are most typical: (1) Water only for water-soluble paste (2) Water + Organic for rosin and no-clean (low residues. This affords lower temperatures and is easier t
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 14 09:35:47 EDT 2004 | JB
We have been using SANFORD Gold Coat and are pleased with it so far. It's a meallic marker. Hope it helps.
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 14 11:10:20 EDT 2004 | mmjm_1099
Go buy a press stamp at local hardware store. Hammer and a few punches and your done.
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 16 21:27:42 EDT 2004 | Darby
Dymo labelmaker with the help of Loctite 401. You can remove later to reuse the frame with a Stanley knife. Works well for me with a similar storage system.
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 28 22:45:04 EDT 2004 | pdeuel
We use a electric pencle type engraver to eatch tooling numbers into almost all types of tooling from production to final assembly.
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 01 09:43:52 EST 2004 | russ
See Daves Answer above and change it to "paste mfgr." Also most all of the cleaning companies have chemistries. Are you cleaning noclean or W.S.? IPA works if you clean them manually, Or the chemicals that the Ultra sonics mfgrs recommend. Search
