Electronics Forum | Sat Jul 14 10:34:42 EDT 2001 | davef
This portion of SMTnet is intended for people whining about the operation of the forums and what-not. A lot of the people asking questions like your use the production forum. We don't have an air knife on our wave, but I recall some threads on SMTn
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 01 21:48:12 EST 2000 | Dave F
Guo: You want to know: 1 Can I use water as the solvent in an ultrasonic machine to remove solder paste from PCB? Continuing from Jason�s comments: Sure you can use water as the solvent to remove solder paste from PCB, but recognize that some flu
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 25 21:59:44 EST 2000 | Dave F
Michael: On reliabiliity, consider that: � IPC-SM-782, "Surface Mount Design And Land Pattern Standard" and IPC-D-279, "Design Guidelines for Reliable Surface Mount Technology Printed Board Assemblies" specifically describe via in pads as "poor des
Electronics Forum | Sat Sep 25 07:07:02 EDT 1999 | Brian
| I need a memory jog. What is the term for the growth of conductive contamination after a board is in storage or field? | There are several different mechanisms which can cause this. In reality, ionic contamination is the root cause for many of the
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 02 16:06:33 EDT 1999 | Earl Moon
| Has anyone done or seen any studies done documenting what may be the affect of hardware such as screws in the parimeter vicinity of BGAs on a circuit board? | | What I'm really after is anything describing how close a screw/washer/nut combination
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 02 16:37:23 EDT 1999 | R Scheller
| | Has anyone done or seen any studies done documenting what may be the affect of hardware such as screws in the parimeter vicinity of BGAs on a circuit board? | | | | What I'm really after is anything describing how close a screw/washer/nut combin
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 24 15:10:25 EDT 1999 | Earl Moon
| Again, I really appreciate the valuable input you all provided. Got my Air-Vac SRM4 machine Friday afternoon. Stored it safely in my cube over the week-end for safe keeping. Tried to find 220V single phase next to air with no luck yesterday. Electr
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 25 10:49:42 EDT 1999 | Boca
| | Again, I really appreciate the valuable input you all provided. Got my Air-Vac SRM4 machine Friday afternoon. Stored it safely in my cube over the week-end for safe keeping. Tried to find 220V single phase next to air with no luck yesterday. Elec
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 16 14:34:18 EDT 1999 | Glenn Robertson
| We are converting from COB to SMT on a product line and want to optomize the PCB as far as Laminate, plating, passivation etc. This is a high temp application 150C. We are presently using BT Laminate but would like to get away from this. We are
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 20 11:33:55 EDT 1999 | Ted Kress
| | I'm planning to introduce selective point-to-point soldering for pwb. This is due to various needs: PIHs assy on double IR, for example. I think the most suitable solution is a point-to-point soldering, 'cause we're still having small lot/many ty
