Why are you guys not simply switching to No-Residue?? Residue free soldering is not a dream, it is a reality and is succesfully implemented for over a decade.
I am the founder of no-residue technology, a technology developed to effectively compete with low laborcost countries by reducing product lead-time and process flow with at least 40%. If you all keep on cleaning and doing postwave assembly of non solvent or non water resistant components (and clean again and again) it will indeed be feasable to opt for lower labor cost.
The tool we have here in this country to stop the manufacturing erosion overseas (low labor cost countries) is "TECHNOLOGY". Just do it, it works!
I have seen so many threads about our manufacturing disappearing overseas but if we don't act its not going to change.
Patrick Bruneel For non believers, my phone number and email: 800-843-3589 patrick@no-residue.com
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