Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 12 11:15:50 EDT 1998 | Ryan Jennens
Hey all! The wave solder warrior is back. I have found a flux which leave almost no residue (the least yet), but because of its super low solids content I absolutely cannot get topside fillets. The multi-layer, two sided board is on a pallet w
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 03 08:46:32 EDT 1998 | Ryan Jennens
Thanks everybody for the help! We are still working on the bottom side, but the top side solder balling seems to have gone away for now. We flattened out the middle soak zone of the profile, so that rather than an even ramp up, the board heats quick
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 13 13:17:00 EST 1998 | Matt Brown
| We use no clean paste and sometimes experience | flux splattering which gives spot on gold fingers. | Need help in analize the cause. thx. Most often, the 'splattering' is caused by an excessive temperature in the oven: this can cause the solder p
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 14 23:58:19 EDT 2001 | Glen Brian
We are using the new auto-dipping machine for LED solder dipping and dragging. The flux is water-soluble flux and the solder is 63/37 at 250 deg. C. Two weeks ago we exchanged the pot with new 63/37 solder. About a week, we found that the high level
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 02 12:56:41 EDT 2001 | Scott B
We have come across this where the operator was using thin gauge solder wire (more suited to fine pitch SMT soldering) to form large solder fillets (power connections or sheild cans). We found that the operator was feeding large amounts of solder wir
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 12 14:32:52 EDT 2001 | Mike Konrad
Hi, Maybe Yes� Maybe No� Actually, it most likely is acceptable to clean assembled boards in an ultrasonic cleaning system (40 kHz). There are some concerns in some circles about possible damage to wire bonds in components. There have been publi
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 24 20:00:24 EST 2002 | davef
If solder touches gold, you should see solder, rather than gold. Since you see gold, something is wrong. * Is the solder touching the gold? If not, why not? * If the solder is touching the gold, but the gold is not soldering, there is a problem w
Electronics Forum | Sat Apr 20 10:12:16 EDT 2002 | davef
If people use an inert gas, they use nitrogen for mass soldering. Inert gases get progressively more expensive as you move down the periodic table. Many times no-clean flux is less active than other flux types. So, people use an inert gas to lower
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 23 11:46:29 EDT 2002 | tombr
Howdy Netter's I was talking with my Paste and Flux Supplier about concerns of conforaml coating over "No-Clean" flux. Supplier informs me that this should not be a problem, but I wanted to poll the industry. 1. Does anyone here conformal coat ove
Electronics Forum | Sun May 19 06:43:37 EDT 2002 | xzinxzin
I using water-soluble solder paste, the solder paste recommended, the peak temperature is 215 deg C, the dwell time above 183 deg C is 60-90 sec. **How I can do, the flux in solder paste is active enough to remove the corrosion on the Cu leads to get
