Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 04 18:48:17 EST 2004 | Roger
Hi Robert, We've been using a SmartSonic cleaning system for years. We place a lot of 0402's and FBGA components. The system cleans those apertures very effectively. The chemistry used in the cleaning solution is very safe and environmentally fri
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 22 10:43:25 EDT 2004 | tigerlordgm
We had a great deal of trouble cleaning adhesive residue from stencils using an alcohol stencil washer. Same kind of thing, adhesive build-up in aperture corners. The solution we came up with was to convert our stencil washer to run Zestron ES200, a
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 21 21:27:11 EDT 2004 | davef
Dreamy "Ball rolling"? Are you a bowler? My nephew does the audio for the ESPN2 production of the professional bowling tour. Search the fine SMTnet Archives for discussion on assessing cleaning machines. For instance: http://www.smtnet.com/forum
Electronics Forum | Mon May 24 17:49:58 EDT 2004 | Glenn
I have an alternative way for you guys to clean the chains on your wave solder machine. We currently use Oil Eaters (live bacteria). The bacteria attacks the oil and any other chemical making it easier to clean the chains. The product is environmenta
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 09 06:40:16 EDT 2004 | Chris Lampron
WA Engineer, Good Morning, Your cleaning system requirements will depend on your chemistry use in production. Are you using RMA or OA flux? This will impact the requirements of the cleaning system. OA will allow you to use a DI water cleaner. If you
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 19 16:56:22 EDT 2004 | exmaintenanceleader
okay, add more flux first and try, pcb surface is not copper already, if more flux helps, than your pcb surface should be ok if not than mehanically cleaning the surface please, (like your car at home 'pol�roz�s-hungaian' I do not know the engli
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 09 11:34:25 EDT 2004 | Woodsmt
I am looking for data / info on how flux may contaminate the solder in a Wave. I have a customer who requires a no clean process. Our wave is equipped with 2 separate fluxing systems and I would like to use OA in one and the No Clean in the other. Th
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 21 11:01:59 EDT 2004 | pabloquintana
Cleaning method will depend on the type of flux > that you use in your soldering process. Yes it is isopropyl alcohol. We use "no-clean" halide free flux (Multicore X33-06i). We still cleaning and I beleive it is because we roto trim the leads aft
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 07 12:14:14 EDT 2004 | bschreiber
The pre-solder cleaning of misprinted PCBs can be a completely different experience from a post-solder application. While the paper that DaveF references is excellent, you may want to read the paper by Richard S. Clouthier, "SMT Stencil Cleaning: A
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 17 08:27:35 EST 2004 | Steve
No-Clean has less activators, your profiling Does change. Look at the data sheet supplied by the solder manufacturer. Then tweak the profile based on your equipment, board type, size etc. Don't burn off the activators too quickly. Also keep your chem
