Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 10 14:35:18 EDT 2003 | russ
What flux are you using to put them back on? you should be able to adequately clean the site after removal with alcohol or water depending upon the type of flux. "White grungy" usually comes from a liquid flux such as Alpha 857 being squirted on th
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 18 16:03:03 EDT 2003 | mkehoe
Orrrrr, just buy a small reflow oven, 5K to 7K, and eliminate the paste printing by using solid solder deposition. No shorts, no opens, no cleaning, and no voids. www.sipad.com If you decide to print your own paste later you can invest the extra 30
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 12 11:43:11 EDT 2004 | wgaffubar
Your wash unit should dry the boards well enough for you just take them and run them second pass within minutes of exiting the wash unit. We did it for years with no problem at all. If you must the hour at 125 will dry the wash water more than enough
Electronics Forum | Thu May 06 18:36:06 EDT 2004 | gustavo
I can help you, if define what type of components you used: Thru hole(axial,radial, pin insertion etc..) axial: milimetrics or standar(span of .200" or .350" ) radial 2.5mm , 5mm or 7.5 mm SMT (chip shooter(1206,0805,0603 ,sot 23 etc or more small
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 02 05:40:35 EDT 2004 | johnwnz
Is there not an issue with reflowign the SAC ball's in term's of drivign up the lead contect in a lead free joint that increases the risk of failure in them? certainly dramatically increases voiding... have some pictures of soem that a customer tried
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 23 13:03:01 EDT 2004 | russ
I would ditto CAL, we have a jewel box 90 with the 5 axis and we love it. I really like being able to tilt,rotate,and move side to side front to back, Angle viewing under a BGA can be very informative as to the quality of reflow in seeing ball coll
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 29 14:42:55 EDT 2004 | davef
You're correct, for every dumpster full of paper written about solder, there's a sentance written about fluxes. There's dribs and drabs about fluxes in most of the soldering books [ie, Manko, Klein-Wassink, Judd, Strauss, etc] and most of that is ve
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 23 02:52:21 EDT 2004 | johnwnz
olks, got one for you. What is the feeling on reusing SMT components that you have removed from an assembled PCBA? For example, you place your IC's and they are 180 deg out, you have to remove them.... but what about refiting the same devices? Are t
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 15 09:11:39 EDT 2004 | mattkehoe
Hi Justin, Thanks for the feedback. We are inspecting with the naked eye. Most of what we do are prototype quantities, in this case 6 pcs, so AOI or measurement equipment has never seemed justified. The release looked uniform during the printing a
Electronics Forum | Sun Jan 09 19:37:15 EST 2005 | Bob R.
I'm just thinking out loud here with no experience to back it up, but I could see where you're trapping air or solvent filled voids inside the via by tenting from both sides. When you go through a heat cycle like reflow or wave solder you could be e
