Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 22 15:27:44 EDT 1999 | Hugh M
| | I keep hearing about polyimide stencils, but what are they like in terms of registration and aperture accuracy? | | | You are hearing about polyimide as in polyimide film as Kapton (TM Dupont). This material is the stuff of flex and rigid/flex c
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 06 12:49:41 EDT 1998 | justin medernach
| I am looking for advice or information from anyone about the possible reliability problems associated with epoxy on solder pads of discrete devices. Will the epoxy expand and lift over time, Will there be adverse reaction between the solder and the
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 24 13:17:55 EDT 1998 | Ben Salisbury
| Does anyone out there know of anyone renting equipment to record video of reflow actions? I am looking for a hi-temp camera to run behind boards in my ovens to record what's happening in there. We have some crazy stuff going on with some boards. He
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 01 11:19:50 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| I'm having a problem getting good reflow on gold sufaced boards. The profile looks good and I have adjusted it both hotter and colder and adjusted the various times ( soak, reflow ) to no avail. What realy gets me Is that a month ago we built some
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 16 12:39:25 EDT 1998 | Nancy J Dawdy
| As an equipment vendor (Panasonic Create group)I am extremely interested in GEM/SECS. It is really a nebulous concept. Everyone I talk to wants something different but it's all lumped under GEM/SECS! I ask a simple question. What do you want it t
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 18 10:57:28 EDT 1998 | Mike Moninger
| We offer an upgrade service for notebooks with 486 SX/DX CPUs up to 586-133 MHz using the AMD 5x86-133 MHz CPU in the PQFP package. We are pretty succesful with this service and until today we did more than 1000 notebook upgrades this way. | Now,
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 04 20:52:57 EDT 1998 | D.Lange
| | I have gold fingers that I want to mask when running over the wave without pallets. They're on the leading edge of the board. I recall seeing rubber boots that slid onto the fingers to mask them. Pop 'em on before the wave; pop' em off after a
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 08 11:30:03 EDT 1998 | mpark
Clint, You may want to call KJ Marketing Services, a Canadian company that fabricates plastic laser cut stencil. They call it "Kepoch stencil" This material was originally developed by Dupont, and patented and marketed by KJ. It was available for
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 20 15:10:54 EST 1998 | Steve Abrahamson
| Cpk's on top flight ovens (e.g., Conceptronics, Heller, Electrovert, Vitronics) vary wildly, from 1 to 2+, between different supplers. The suppliers don't seem to understand Cpk's. A supplier's rep whose oven has a Cpk of 1.0 told me: | 1. Cpk's
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 17 11:57:39 EST 1998 | Richard
| Jim and all, | I am with SMTnet and want to thank all of you for | your participation in the SMT Forum. The recent slow | down of the forum was caused by three factors: | 1. The amount of data has increased. We keep | 3 months worth of messages
