Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 19 13:52:58 EST 1998 | mike c
| We are in need of a low cost system for the rework of | various SMT devices. Ideally the machine should support BGA, | SQFP, and large PLCCs. | Is it a dream to ask for SMT tweezers, a regular iron, | and a convection pencil as well? Want a machin
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 15 13:40:55 EDT 2001 | rkevin
Just as there are a number of causes of solder balling there are also several factors which can lead to or encourage the formation of solder beads. - During the placement of the component solder paste may be squeezed out from underneath the compone
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 25 10:29:32 EDT 2003 | caldon
Hey Mike- We ran into the same thing when we purchased a Large CanadianManufacturers repair business. We were creative and first used an ESD bag cut open (Simulate the paper idea) then we used a 3M parts bin and would tip it on its corner to funnel t
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 28 06:16:20 EDT 2006 | pavel_murtishev
Good afternoon, We run mixed LF/SnPb process for most of out products. Most of chip passives have lead free termination and some of them tend towards blistering issue. SnPb solder wets component in very strange way. Wetting phenomena seems to be abn
Electronics Forum | Sat Mar 24 12:30:20 EDT 2007 | John B.
We're currently running a manncorp ECM-93, which has served us alright, but we've pretty much outgrown it. We manufacture power electronics, a lot of double sided designs with odd form parts. We have about 30 different designs we manufacture, and we
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 21 10:54:17 EST 2007 | isd_jwendell
All or nothing You do not need to purchase everything all at once. You can start with the manual stencil printer and oven, which are the lower cost items and easiest to maintain. Placing parts by hand will be very time consuming, but you can do a fe
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 21 01:57:55 EDT 2009 | kaz
Hello All, My first visit here. I own and operate a small Industrial & Consumer Electronics Service Shop. There is more and more modules with high density fine pitch SMDs that we cannot handle. We bought PACE ThermoFlow BGA SMD station with a bunch o
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 17 14:33:02 EST 2011 | olddog
Thanks again Bobpan for all of your help. I hope some of my questions are dumb ones. Regarding "first", the QA error 0, you were right. In checking the setup, for some reason theta was 65227 instead of the 0 that I thought I had set. Regarding "sec
Electronics Forum | Sun Feb 22 15:46:09 EST 2015 | slave2anubis
Hi, my name is Dacian, and i run a mobile phone repair shop in Timisoara, Romania. Lately we decided to do more advance motherboard repair jobs, and a big problem that we have is, cleaning the board after we remove the chips. We repair manly iPhone,
Electronics Forum | Sun Aug 13 00:15:58 EDT 2017 | deanm
We manufacture low volume, high reliability assemblies (class 3) that are conformal coated. Up until now we have been cleaning after SMT, then after through hole, then immediately prior to coating with test, formal inspection, etc. between cleaning p