Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 30 05:55:52 EST 2004 | Repair Process Tech
When we need to apply paste during BGA rework we normally order a stencil from our stencil vendor. In most cases all we need to do is tell them the assembly and location plus quantity and they do the rest for us. Usually we'll have several types of a
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 26 12:26:31 EST 2004 | Mike Konrad
Hi Patrick, With all due respect, it is easy to quantify zero. You made a claim that your flux produces ZERO residue. There are several industry-standards (IPC and Military) of determining the cleanliness of post-reflowed circuit assemblies. Th
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 24 20:19:09 EST 2004 | Ken
I recently did a no clean flux eval and by far the leader in the category for remainder (residue) was Interflux 2005MZ 1. You first mission is to provide acceptable solder joints. 2. Only apply what you need to achieve acceptable results. Spray f
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 25 15:01:45 EST 2004 | patrickbruneel
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 w
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 01 11:53:33 EST 2004 | russ
You may want to tack a coup[le of leads first, making sure that the component is fully seated against the PCBA. Or what we do is apply solder to the E-Pad and the lead pads and then hit it with a "heat gun" until the solder melts on the E-Pad and th
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 12 09:39:38 EDT 2004 | cedams
Ken, Thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately (or fortunately) I am in Mexico and we make our own PCBs. That is another conversation entirely and another of my fix-it projects but currently we drill the PCBs and align the artwork to the holes visually
Electronics Forum | Sun Apr 04 10:16:16 EDT 2004 | cyclopsn
I'm involved in backplane manufacturing process. There are about 10 electrolitic capacitor assembled in my board.These capacitor are soldered using a selective soldering machine. My problem is that these capacitor will charged up and failed as short
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 12 07:44:50 EDT 2004 | wgaffubar
Former company we use to replace No Lead BGA's by using dot dispense to apply eutectic solder to pad with same volume the stencil printer. Current company process removes bad BGA, wicks off solder paste then Hot Gas Reflows new No Lead BGA to bare pa
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 13 19:47:05 EDT 2004 | davef
Glue has different mechanical, thermal, and electrical properties than solder. That's why all these very nice no-lead people are furiously trying to gin-up some wacky solder alloy, rather than using glue. Among the papers in the SMTA Knowledge base
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 15 11:53:37 EDT 2004 | Claude_Couture
Hi everyone, Our QC manager is bugging me about calibrating the TC readings on our reflow ovens. I keep telling him that doing a regular reflow profiling with a mole is sufficient to see if the oven temperature are normal. The manuals state that TC c
