Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 26 19:51:31 EDT 2001 | davef
Rosin. A hard, natural resin, consisting of abietic acid [and pimaric acids in Europe] and their isomers, some fatty acids, and terepene hydrocarbons. Rosin is extracted from pine tree stumps. It�s an organic material distilled from oleoresin in p
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 25 20:35:44 EDT 2001 | davef
According to J-STD-004 "Requirements for Soldering Fluxes", fluxes are classified by their chemical composition, activity level and halide content. In this scheme, each flux type is identified by a 4-character designator, where: * First two character
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 26 10:49:59 EDT 2001 | genny
Yes I have read that standard, but it doesn't tell me what I need to know. Both have the same activity level and halide rating (L0) The AIM technical guy told me RO is a natural gum rosin, while (RE) Resin has more processing or something (maybe so
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 20 11:28:45 EDT 2001 | Steve
Fluxes that have been properly heat activated are insulative (non-reactive) during operation in the field and during environmental testing. If you are also performing a cleaning operation, the possibility of growing dendrites is so remote that it can
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 02 00:16:18 EST 2004 | Mike Konrad
There is no shortage of reasons to clean your boards. Soldering or reflowing your boards leaves �stuff� on them. This �stuff� is normally corrosive and conductive (some fluxes / pastes are more corrosive / conductive than others). In either case,
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 18 17:36:32 EST 2008 | kennyg
I should have mentioned... the only flux we use for the hand soldering is wire-core, no bottle flux. I think it should be a non-issue to leave the activated wire core flux residue. I'm just looking for some way to prove it to the designer.
Electronics Forum | Thu May 11 11:25:56 EDT 2017 | davef
Key to Rosin Fluxes [from SUPERIOR FLUX & MFG. CO.] Type R (Rosin): Non-activated rosin flux for soldering copper. Residues are non-corrosive and non-conductive. Type RMA (Rosin Mildly Activated): Mildly activated rosin flux that contains no chlori
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 21 13:10:10 EDT 1999 | Dave F
| Dear All, | | In order to understand the soldering technologies in SMT, I'd like to understand why some cards are soldered and then cleaned, or only soldered whitout water cleaning nor "ultra sound" wavelength. | | I mean that I wonder why we use
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 23 14:41:41 EDT 2004 | Steve Stach
Dear JSK, It sounds like the root causes of your problem are two fold. First, excessive heat will polymerize the abietic acid found in rosin forming neo-abietic diamers and polymers which are much less soluble than the parent monomer. There are
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 22 02:45:23 EDT 1999 | Brian
| | Dear All, | | | | In order to understand the soldering technologies in SMT, I'd like to understand why some cards are soldered and then cleaned, or only soldered whitout water cleaning nor "ultra sound" wavelength. | | | | I mean that I wonder
