Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 31 18:59:55 EDT 2000 | Brian W.
Our customers use OSP, HASL, immersion tin and immersion gold as board finishes. If I recommend a finish to the customer, it is one of the immersion finishes or OSP. Those finishes have the advantage of a flat surface to deposit paste. HASL has va
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 05 20:43:27 EST 2001 | davef
1 Solder on gold fingers comes from: 1a About 70 % of the time it's caused by poor cleaning of screen printer, staging area (table), conveyor, reflow oven chain or belt, and keeping boards separate from cleaning process 1b After loading paste onto
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 11 19:12:11 EDT 2002 | djarvis
Sorry fellas -disagree. We only clean our stencils in the ultrasonic machine at the end of the run. If the same pcb is up the next day we clean them by hand. We use Electrolube SSS and the used rolls from the in line under stencil cleaner. Wipe the
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 04 15:53:49 EST 2002 | kenBliss
Hi Steve I understand your point, the comments on the thread of which are slightly off of the original posted question but it still is handling. Handling is handling. If you pick up a board from one conveyor just to put on another conveyor that is
Electronics Forum | Mon May 07 16:00:38 EDT 2007 | patrickbruneel
Dave, There is not really a �smart� or scientific way to check this but I know of easy ways and very effective ways. Fex. an easy way to check is with a 3� spatula, you hold the spatula at the same angle as the board and drag trough the wave simula
Electronics Forum | Sat Mar 14 09:12:59 EDT 2009 | davef
First, there is no good justification for getting solder on gold fingers. Second, it is well known that solder on gold fingers is unacceptable. So, shipping boards with that condition indicates sloppy quality practices at your CM. Third, that being
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 15 12:27:59 EDT 2015 | sumote
The key to longevity in any automated soldering machine is in the preventative maintenance. If the machine has had regular maintenance preformed on it, your job will be that much easier. The 1st thing I would do is to either throw out the solder t
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 13 14:49:15 EDT 2010 | davef
90%) from the sample, and the bake time and temperature specified herein are minimums. To improve test accuracy, or to prevent heat damage, other bake parameters may be AABUS. 2 Applicable Documents IPC-QL-653 Certification of Facilities that Inspect
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 19 19:04:55 EDT 1999 | Brian Wycoff
| | Can anyone help on the subject of de-wetting during the spray coating process. We use PC29M Parts A+B spray coating material, Humiseal tapes and masking dots, Marigold supertouch V70N gloves and Concoat CM533 liquid masking material. We also use
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 06 09:51:20 EDT 1998 | Bob Willis
This text may be of interest to any one with tin lead spots Guide to Solder Spots - A New Plague in Manufacture ? So what are solder spots ? They appear to be the next big problem in modern reflow assembly in fact in any process that involves solder
