Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 28 07:23:24 EDT 2011 | scottp
My group supports a couple hundred lines all over the world. Most of them use squeegees but a few use either the MPM Rheometric pump heads or the DEK Proflow heads. I absolutely hate the enclosed heads. Flux separation, compaction, and the print q
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 10 12:57:25 EST 2009 | scottp
We've used mostly cartridges for many years and I only saw separation once when a particular paste supplier had a problem. With cartridges it's just thaw and use - no mixing. We have some sites that use jars along with mixers and I've never been co
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 27 09:58:05 EDT 2011 | davef
Pressure printing systems Conventional stencil printing techniques have fundamental limitations as regards paste handling: The volume of paste available for printing is limited, so frequent replenishment is necessary Paste is difficult to c
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 14 18:45:08 EST 2009 | gregoryyork
why not use a paste where it requires no refrigeration at all cheers Greg
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 10 12:53:12 EST 2009 | deanm
Bryan, Dyoungquist is correct. You should not need to mix solder paste. Overmixing solder paste can adversely affect it. Follow these guidelines and you should be fine: 1. Keep unopened containers of paste in the refrigerator. 2. Take one container
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 29 10:03:02 EDT 2011 | blnorman
At a previous location we used the Semco cartridges. Occasionally the operator would have to scrape down the stencil and knead the paste back in. That would keep the paste on the edges from drying out. It was just standard procedure.
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 12 08:25:43 EDT 2005 | davef
Q1 Can anyone explain to me what is the clean and non clean solder? A1 The trend away from CFCs has lead many users to evaluate switching to no-clean soldering processes. The term "no-clean" is actually a common misnomer when used to describe a flux
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 08 08:52:42 EST 2009 | cunningham
How do people prepare there solder paste for screen print? We currently remove them from the fridge and mix them in a 500g solder paste tub mixer to mix the flux and paste together we waste to much paste at the moment as we only use the tub for 1
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 11 09:51:56 EST 2009 | dyoungquist
I won't say never but very rarely do we have problems with the flux seperating. The way we get around the 1-2 hour warmup time is this: The day before we run a particular job, the last person takes out the paste needed from the fridge as the last t
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 09 09:47:32 EST 2009 | dyoungquist
I am curious as to why you need to mix.... We use a 500g cartridge with air gun. Our process is remove the cartridge from the fridge, allow it to warm up to room temperature before inserting into air gun, then apply bead of paste to the stencil. N