Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 03 16:11:07 EST 2000 | cpitarys
Yes it is Ok and some folks ae doing it now, but unfortunatly IPA may not be the best solvent for this application. Take a small vial of the ipa and put some of your smt adhesive into it, shake it up and watch what happens, now step this up onto a l
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 03 09:48:06 EST 2000 | Wolfgang Busko
I have heard about it. The main reason is to save money. The problem is, or better is said, that the mixing isn�t that simple for you got have a homogen paste afterwards and the solderballs shouldn�t be deformed in size so that problems during printi
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 02 18:15:01 EST 2000 | Stu Leech
How is the component marked. Is it ink marked, laser marked or what? What is the material that the marking on? What volume are you looking at? We used a small, pencil-sized sand blaster, loaded with bicarbonate of soda to errode the mark off of plast
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 02 21:09:22 EST 2000 | Dave F
Doug: To remove paints, we've tried a bunch of stuff like messy, hazardous chemicals (ie, methylene chloride, xylene, toulene). We've blasted (erzat been blasted???), like Stu says. We used etching pens. Auuuurgh!!! Now, we paint over them with
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 02 13:17:00 EST 2000 | Russ
Jack, a couple of questions first, 1. What pitch are these leads? 2. What are the lead footprint dimensions? 3. Orientation of component? I personally have never had much luck soldering QFPs in the wave unless they are 50 mil pitch or greater, we o
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 01 09:34:13 EST 2000 | Sorin
HELLO, Do anybody know if is existing an empirical rule that can show me how many amps can carry a plated through hole with a diameter of x.xx millimeters? Is there a formula depending on X.XX value that could help me to make such calculations? How
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 01 17:09:51 EST 2000 | Dave F
Gwen: Failures occur during a products life cycle, as you say. According to Reliability Analysis Center, overall factors affecting reliability are: � Maintenance shop (17%) � Hardware reliability (16%) � Retest OK (28%) � Design (21%) � Quality (18
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 01 17:05:34 EST 2000 | Dave F
Glenn: I hear you, but when Steve talks about a "dark haze" and "scrap(ing) the �black stuff� off the pads" to make them solderable, but I don�t think of "black pad." I think of "black pad" as a surface coating that typically can not be removed by
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 01 16:58:03 EST 2000 | Dave F
Robert: On your balls: Solder suppliers make several "standard balls" and can advise you. On your cleaner: Recycling water / direct to drain? Most batch cleaner suppliers can advise you on recycling and filtering systems to keep you out of troub
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 28 11:53:08 EST 2000 | Wendy Casker
Charlie, There are 2 ways to go and they both work. 1. Add thieving pads of the same size and pitch to all 4 corners 2. Make the exisiting 4 corner pads "doublewides" Both ways work. I like #2 because you don't get a bridge. Even though a bridge
