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
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 25 14:00:57 EST 2000 | Bill Schreiber
Dave is correct, a stencil cleaner is a good way to go. There is an article on our web site, by Dick Clouthier, that covers cleaning misprints with various types of stencil cleaners. Go to www.smartsonic.com and click on "Recommended Reading" to fi
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 23 11:23:42 EST 2000 | Jeff Sanchez
Hi everyone, I just installed a batch oven in my shop. It;s an older Advanced Techniques PRO-90. I need to know what a good and simple profile is for it. I want to run some simple double sided boards with 63/37 no clean paste. The machine of
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 23 16:14:39 EST 2000 | John S.
John, We have a Camalot 3800 that we have used to prototype double sided reflow boards. The flexibility a quick turn around work well for prototyping, but I wouldn't want to run production with it. The paste is 3 times the cost per unit volume of
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 17 21:42:12 EST 2000 | Dave F
Hey Bud: Moved from that Bi-crap to something serious, eh? Several things: 1 Get in touch with Doug Romm (drom@msg.ti.com) at Texas Instruments. He talks palladium. 2 Review the archives on Palladium. 3 I think you're running light on temps. Eut
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 08 07:24:36 EST 2000 | Wayne Bracy
Scott Wish we could all quite showing our age and just enjoy the SMTNet. Most of us enjoy reading the responses and at times responding to issues that are important to all of us. Technical information is so important to all of us. Most of the Old
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 15 14:44:11 EST 2001 | davef
I like the "While You Were Out" I like being able to preview before posting and being able to edit my postings I agree that the adverts are not larger, but that that column of information [on the left] is wider, which with the box around the advert
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 18 15:20:30 EST 2001 | martin_murray
Hi, I'm new to this site and was wondering if someone can help me out. I am interested in all surface mount machines as I am a service engineer, I am trying to compile for my own benefit a portfolio of the machines that I have worked on. The problem
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 30 14:59:07 EST 2001 | MikeF
I thought Contact Length refered to the travel distance the board stays in contact with the solder. I measured it using a tempered glass plate that also showed me if I had an even footprint of contact with the wave. By this definition, conveyor spe
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 01 08:55:35 EST 2001 | Dale Dolan
We are currently reviewing the stencil cleaning process in house, we curently use ISOPROPYL ALCOHOL followed by a rub down with non lint wipe alls ( not good !!).As for drying the screen's, the apertures are blown out with compressed air and left to
