Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 18 14:46:38 EDT 1998 | Igmar Grewar
| WHAT SHOULD THE RATIO BE OF STENCIL APERATURE TO PAD TO GET GOOD QUALITY RESULTS. BY THAT I MEAN, A MINIMM OF SOLDER BALLS, AND LITTLE TO NO BRIDGING, SHORTS, ETC.. | RIGHT NOW WE ARE USING A 1:1 RATIO, BUT ARE INVESTIGATING REDUCING THE APERATU
Electronics Forum | Thu May 07 12:29:17 EDT 1998 | Rob Williams
I am running a board that is .062" thick and has components that over hang the edge of the board by .090". I have bottom side smt components (chip caps and resistors only) and use the turbulent wave to help solder the components. The problem I am h
Electronics Forum | Fri May 01 12:26:02 EDT 1998 | Michael Allen
| As a matter of fact I do have DIRECT EXPERIENCE with this equipment I had 3 4713 with vision (which by the way was next to useless), You should mention if they have not allready will shortly stop supporting this equipment(spare parts), and good luc
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 15 06:16:30 EDT 2001 | JohnW
Ok so an update on the ceramic board. I've had some success but did have to cheet a little. So Dave, on the fluxing, your right we're not getting it all the way up the barrel and in the end as a short term fix we're dipping the lead's in flux not th
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 15 19:04:26 EDT 2001 | mparker
Viewing a blade on its own merits may give you subjective results. Are you asking about metal or rubber squeegees? You really need to examine the print quality before you decide if a blade is worth using. If you are getting the right paste deposit vo
Electronics Forum | Sun Jun 02 23:20:39 EDT 2002 | fastek
China is way behind the technology curve and will be for some time. They're still soaking up all of the through hole and 10 year old chipshooters they can get their hands on. China is the latest flavor of the month for cheap labor just like Mexico wa
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 17 17:04:15 EDT 2002 | pjc
Guys, Thanks for the input. Its a Opto-Electronic project I'm working on for a customer with a device on a ceramic substrate. Yes, I did learn from Indium that 007 is no-clean and has a high-solids content. They reccommended using TacFlux 010, which
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 23 18:17:20 EDT 2002 | MikeF
Actually, I have found this thread interesting as well as lively, especially since I may soon be in a similar position. I have thru hole background, but my smt experience is mostly at the prototype level. Of course, I'm in a good position, John Stima
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 13 13:28:58 EDT 2002 | stepheno
I guess no one at ECD reads this forum. They make a clip-on thermocouple prob. Where I used to work we had 3. At first I thought they were very awkward to set up. But once you practise a bit and get used to the right hand thread tightening screw
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 11 12:19:11 EDT 2002 | Randy V
All information regardless of its origin should be questioned and not taken without some data. I have been working in Electronics for allot of years and I have worked with some very competent reps and some real bad ones. Reps usually refer me to the