Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 20 16:00:20 EDT 1999 | Earl Moon
| Has anybody run across a good concise book or other source on solder paste, its characteristics, handling, storage, stencil design, printing and reflow? Yes I asking for the world! | | TX | Mark | As the world turns, or is/was that a soap my x/fu
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 31 12:04:21 EST 1998 | Clifford Peaslee @ SMTnet
| To all the workers at the SMTNet just wishing you a happy new year. 1998 was a wonderful year for most of us and we can only hope that 1999 will be as good or even better. | | Really have enjoyed visiting the SMTNet forum and look forward to the
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 23 21:27:26 EST 1998 | Jim Mitchell
Many machines now have adaptive pick that helps tune in the pickup as the 0402 part moves around in the pocket. Fuji may have a feature like this, but I think they adapt the pickup in only one axis (by adjusting the feeder rack). Unfortunately this
Electronics Forum | Mon May 25 08:57:57 EDT 1998 | Dave F
| Y'all: IPC set-up a site addressing the environmental issues of the printed circuit fabrication industry. Some of it is interesting and applicable to the assembly business as well, even though not aimed directly at assemblers. IPC has recently t
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 10 05:03:58 EST 2002 | praveen
We are having solder fillet finish issue. The solder looks like rough solder on the connector leads .The plating of the leads is Nickel (99.9% purity) and the PCB plating is imersion gold. I have tried fine tuning my reflow profiles an have used N2 i
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 07 09:27:07 EST 2003 | davef
For all of the ranting about "sales-types" using the forum inappropriately, it's nice that some of those types get IT. So if you rant when people behaving poorly, then you must praise people when perform well. This is over-due. Hats off to Mike,
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 04 07:37:07 EST 2003 | msivigny
Hello Ryan, I'll be completely honest, I haven't seen anything on the radar scope but I haven't been tuned to ESD issues. Everything I've seen in the industry ranges from complete compliance with Class 10,000 clean rooms to questionable use of foot s
Electronics Forum | Tue May 27 12:53:15 EDT 2003 | davef
Our solder irons are tuned to 700*F, but the in-use temperature varies according to the solder alloy and the characteristics of the board and components. Check some of the papers on multilayer ceramic capacitors. They get fairly specific, for insta
Electronics Forum | Fri May 30 13:26:13 EDT 2003 | caldon
Ben- My understanding of Tacky Flux is for Automation process where the Tacky Flux helps hold the component in place. If you are using a rework system that holds the Board firm..then typical no clean flux (Flux Pen) should work fine. I can only asum
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 30 21:20:07 EDT 2003 | davef
It's good for Cookson shareholders that something has forced the managers of Cookson to come to their senses, finally. All those aquisitions never made sense to anyone, except the MBAs and lawyers that reaped the fees from all that paper shuffling.
