Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 19 11:36:39 EST 2001 | billschreiber
Hello Mark, I wish it were that simple so I could direct you to a particular manufacturer and stencil cleaner model. Unfortunately, there are several issues complicating the process of cleaning all these applications in one machine. First and fore
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 26 11:44:23 EDT 2002 | abelardo
Hello everyone out there in the SMT world. I have a dilema I'm currently running a board that has 3 csp's with a .75 mm. ball pitch and .3mm ball size. And 2 qfp's-160. The stencil is 4 mils thick and I'm using a 63/37 solder paste. My reflow prof
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 26 20:43:51 EDT 2002 | davef
"OK. If the connection doesn't look like I expect it to look, how do I know that the metallurgy is correct?" Comments are: * There are no pictures that will get you though this. * You should expect that gold that is dissolved in Pb/Sn solder to make
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 01 12:20:16 EST 2006 | cvoyles
Hi Bruno, I am an equipment reseller in business since 1994. I have a Smart Sonic MG3000 ultra sonic stencil cleaner in inventory. It is a stainless steel model with Delta Sonics brand ultra sonic generator. It is the guillotine type that raises a
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 09 18:17:15 EST 2002 | Chris
I don't have a plasma cleaner either. It will help a lot. Actually I don't clean at all. Our wirebond pads are far enough away so the flux residue does not get on the wirebond pads. That's what we think anyway. I am sure we have some degree of c
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 09 07:35:23 EDT 1998 | Steve Gregory
Hi there Gary, Your solder ball problem is very similar the problem I experienced, but I was using a water soluble paste at the time. It started by inspectors telling me that they were seeing cold solder on some SIMM's that we had built regularly. W
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 09 15:46:29 EDT 1998 | Aric Parr
| Hi there Gary, | Your solder ball problem is very similar the problem I experienced, but I was using a water soluble paste at the time. It started by inspectors telling me that they were seeing cold solder on some SIMM's that we had built regularly
Electronics Forum | Sun Nov 08 15:27:25 EST 2015 | davef
Thinner: Flux thinner, NOT paint thinner We kept a spare stone in thinner in inventory. We cut PVC pipe to size, cap in one end, screw thread on the other, stone inside, filled with flux thinner and covered with a screw cap. I don't remember who we
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 12 17:24:27 EDT 1999 | Kevin Ham
| | A question for you all! | | | | Back in the good old days, we didn't always know how clean was clean. Much has changed. Much hasn't. | | | | My question concerns cleaning under, through, and around tight spaces. Way back when, we could not clea
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 06 04:51:16 EST 1999 | Earl Moon
| | A question for you all! | | | | Back in the good old days, we didn't always know how clean was clean. Much has changed. Much hasn't. | | | | My question concerns cleaning under, through, and around tight spaces. Way back when, we could not clea