Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 30 16:10:10 EDT 1999 | Dave F
| I have looked through the IPC web page and surfed to frustration. Can somebody give me a lead? | Brian: We don't use an etched board. We use a special stencil, described below and print on bare copper laminate. 3 Solder Wetting Test. Recogniz
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 12 10:33:45 EST 2002 | davef
IPC-4101 - Specification For Base Materials For Rigid And Multilayer Boards replaces MIL-P-13949 - Plastic Sheet, Laminated, Copper-Clad (For Printed Wiring) Taking a broader look, there are many �Obsolete MIL Document To Commercial Document� replac
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 05 17:18:53 EST 2001 | davef
Wha, Nellie!!! Delamination & Blistering IPC-A-600D Although it may occasionally occur because of a severe process breakdown, delamination and blistering occurs as a result of an inherent weakness of the material. Either condition represents a brea
Electronics Forum | Wed May 07 21:20:53 EDT 2008 | davef
Causes of Delamination ["Quality Assessment of Printed Circuit Boards" Lund, Preben; Bishop Graphics 1985 0137450354] The reason for delamination is epoxy starvation in the glass cloth layers or an incomplete curing of the base material. It has been
Electronics Forum | Sat Aug 03 07:29:20 EDT 2002 | davef
IPC-PE-740 "Troubleshooting for Printed Board Manufacture and Assembly" has words to the effect of � 1.5---BAKING Laminate materials are baked several times during the manufacture of a printed wiring board. There are four major reasons for
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 14 17:52:49 EST 2001 | davef
6 Work Life Test 6.1 Obtain a stencil with 15 to 20 rows of a series of 0.025 by 0.050 inch apertures spaced 0.050, 0.040, 0.025, 0.015, 0.010, 0.010, 0.025, 0.040, 0.050 inches apart. See Appendix 1. Source of supply: Metal Etching Technology.
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 10 13:12:10 EDT 2000 | Bob Willis
You may care to review the following from my Circuits Assembly page on line. "HOW FLAT IS FLAT AND DO WE NEED FLAT CIRCUIT BOARD, YES WE DO ? As production problems go there is one that keeps reoccurring time and time again. The blame is usually di
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 11 22:47:31 EST 2006 | davef
We didn't intend to light anyone's fur on fire [get anyone's underwear in a knot, roil the waters, have a cow man] about consultants. The Phil Zarrow wrote a useful paper that could help in evaluating paste. Here read it ... Evaluating Solder Paste
Electronics Forum | Thu May 26 08:52:42 EDT 2011 | davef
Phil Zarrow wrote a useful paper that could help in evaluating paste. Here read it ... Evaluating Solder Paste � Not An Option Contributed by Phil Zarrow of ITM an Independent SMT consulting firm With soldering being the dominant source of assembly
Electronics Forum | Sun Aug 08 20:59:55 EDT 1999 | Dreamsniper
| | | What oven temperature should be used to reflow solder (Sn63Pb37) on a PC board (0.075" to 0.100" thickness) in 5 to 10 minutes? | | | | Profiling - tedious but important. As said, start with the paste manufacturers recomendation which is usua