Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 16 11:28:53 EDT 2000 | Boca
Solder 'follows' heat. 1. Preheating is a great idea, use a baking oven to get the whole assembly up to temperature, use the preheaters in your wave solder machine (without wave) to preheat the assemblies ... 2. Or use the biggest soldering iron
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 12 10:57:51 EDT 2000 | Jason
I am new to wave soldering. Any information is greatly welcomed. Here is the problem. After soldering the boards they have a film on the bottom of them and sometimes a white powder looking substance. I have tried decreasing the amount of flux on
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 02 09:31:26 EDT 2000 | C.K.
Okay, there's a debate here at my company. We build a card here that, often times, we get batches where there is excess HASL in the VIA hole barrels. Here is the problem that this causes: During the "1st reflow", the excess HASL bleeds out of the
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 06 20:10:28 EDT 2000 | Dave F
You bet. It goes liquidous and tries to flow down hill flux or not. * And wudda wanna bet there�s still flux residues in those vias, anyhoo? Yes, you're right!! There might be excess flux residues in them via barrels....but why
Electronics Forum | Tue May 30 21:14:31 EDT 2000 | Dave F
Sal: JAX makes good points, but I�d like to think about this differently. It sounds like the poorly soldered connection is lifting the whole connector, so that termination floats on top of the solder, rather than submit to the wetting force and be
Electronics Forum | Thu May 18 20:47:14 EDT 2000 | Dave F
Ed: It might be possible, never tried tho, but if an engineer wandered in, talking about it ... Printing: Makes me pretty nervous, because punched boards are not planar, don�t stay planar, and are inconsistently not planar. If I could work-out th
Electronics Forum | Wed May 17 13:33:32 EDT 2000 | John Thorup
Absolutely Mike Lets take that one step further and say that almost anything that you use to clean up with will from then on be considered hazardous waste. Wiping rags/pads, the previously mentioned vacuum bags/filters, the piece of cardboard that yo
Electronics Forum | Tue May 02 14:18:50 EDT 2000 | Erhard Hofmann
I think it is very nice to have the feature of getting informed when someone answers to a question I put on the smt.net. But (and that's a big but): If you send out an email why can't you just include all the informations you want to send in the emai
Electronics Forum | Tue May 02 05:35:07 EDT 2000 | Donnie
There are a number of different things to ask youreself here. What type of flux are you using. 330, 351, 310 etc. Do you have a hot air knife? As for the residue, that's gonna show on almost any wave soldered pcb. We have fought the issue for a long
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 11 20:23:19 EDT 2000 | Dave F
Ashok: You're still goin' down that ol' ESD road aren't ya bud? Why do you need the boards to be dry? Conformal coating? Hey wait a minute, are you one of those no-clean people? Er zis related to the Kapton tape res fandango? Anywho, be careful
