Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 17 20:48:18 EDT 1999 | Earl Moon
| | first of all what is the technical term for the small amount of solder on a plated pad. we are getting poor screen printing gasketing on a 20 mil qfp due to this solder not being even or too high in spots and not covering the length of the pads.
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 16 14:06:01 EDT 1999 | Jagman
| | | | A potential customer of our is inquiring if we have capability | | | | for Hot Bar manufacturing in the PCBA manufacturing world. If someone can explain to me what this entails, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you. | | | | | | | One
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 16 06:16:44 EDT 1999 | Brian
I'm sorry, Cliff, but what you say is akin to bovine excrement. The problem is that your server is shared and is in Fort Lauderdale, which is at the end of a spur from one of the Atlanta nodes of the Internet backbone. The available bandwidth on this
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 16 10:44:04 EDT 1999 | Clifford Peaslee
Brian, Thanks for your concern, and maybe there is fear that we are trying to mislead people, which is not true. We do not have the server in house here in Portland, Maine. It is in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at Advances.com. We are sharing a netw
Electronics Forum | Sun Jun 13 05:46:21 EDT 1999 | Brian Ellis
Murray "No-clean" fluxes/pastes should not normally give "white residues". Before exploring cleaning, which is costly for small production levels, I suggest you may care to find out why you have these residues. To help you, can you please answer th
Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 12 10:46:32 EDT 1999 | Dean
| Our company is experiencing cracked caps at our pick and place operations. The caps are being placed onto epoxy dots for subsequent wave solder operations. At present, be have set the pressure of the head at 2 in/lbs. This being down from manufac
Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 05 00:02:24 EDT 1999 | Dean
| Any of you Process/Manufacturing Engineers, techs, etc..or those of you who 'have a clue' about this stuff been victimized by (clueless and uneducated) Manufacturing Supervisors and (clueless and uneducated) Managers who blame EVERYTHING on YOU, th
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 08 11:54:17 EDT 1999 | Steve Skinner
| | | I'm encountering a new problem at my new company that I haven't encountered before in my past life - and that's Wave Soldering VIA holes. | | | | | | We've been getting a rash of defects that we call in this company, "insufficient solder in VI
Electronics Forum | Tue May 25 12:05:53 EDT 1999 | Deon Nungaray
| Just a note about cleaning stencils with a mixture of alcohol and water, especially if you're using no clean paste, it's really not recommended. | | Don't take my word for it, you can check with Alpha or most any other solderpaste vendor. What wil
Electronics Forum | Tue May 25 10:56:12 EDT 1999 | John Thorup
| | | Can anyone steer me towards a supplier of heatsinks suitable for use on a PQFP 160. Before you shoot me down in flames, I know that I am not going to get much heat away from the die because of the plastic but the application is such that the bo
