Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 28 16:00:31 EST 2002 | bschreiber
Hello Dave, Water Washable (Organic Acid, OA) post solder flux residue is designed for cleaning in plain water without cleaning chemical additives. The real advantage of water washable flux was that it cleaned in plain water without additives � no
Electronics Forum | Tue May 21 20:27:05 EDT 2002 | davef
No N2. We could not fix a benefit for N2 in our minds. Just fold the excess bag material over to expell most air and then seal the bag. [Have you assessed the benefit of N2?] F Monette can tell you stories about little versus more pressure. If he
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 01 13:10:46 EDT 2002 | johnw
Chris, I don't know what machine your using, but we're also playing with one at the moment and don't see any problems with micro solderballing as far as I'm aware (I'll double check tomorrow thou!) We're using Kester 977 with it and don't have a pro
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 30 16:25:21 EDT 2002 | davef
Imm silver holds-up to multiple thermal cycles very well. The things, we guess, are happening to make imm silver tough to solder after heating and sitting are: * Oxidation of the silver. * Reduction of the co-deposited organic anti-tarnish [used in
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 07 12:48:31 EST 2003 | rholland
I have seen in the last couple of months more boards with a white hazing under the solder mask. I ran a few tests on a board to determine the cause of the white hazing underneath the solder mask. First I confirmed, or at least I think I confirmed, t
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 09 12:13:27 EST 2004 | Gabriele
I want just to confirm what Dave suggested you. J-STD-033a, par 6. Boards Rework tells you plenty of useful informations. 6.1 Component removal, RWK and remount 6.1.1 Removal for Failure Analysi 6.1.2 Removal & Remount 6.2 Baking of Populated Boar
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 15 20:41:22 EDT 2004 | Ken
There are ledgitimate reasons for checking furnace calibrations, but let me clarify what that is. 1. TC's are not necessarily calibrted. Not unless you need "absolute" accuracy. TC's operate against a (non-linear) standard +/- a tolerance. Most
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 22 14:21:13 EST 2004 | James Dornan of APE Inc
A little late but if this subject is still of interest the following paper from APE may be of interestwhen considering IR to Air Bath: HOT AIR versus IR and other convection Rework Systems HOT AIR is the most popularly chosen method of rework in th
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 18 00:41:15 EDT 2004 | Grant
Hi, We have the Soltec Delta C. It works well, and is very stable. I think the software is a bit simplistic, but it keeps the wave stable, so that's the main thing. It's the timer on the software that I find annoying. It has a warm up time, and yo
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 02 17:49:07 EST 2005 | grantp
Hi, We used a batch oven from Reddish Electronics out of the UK. It was convection, and ok, but had limitations. Batch convection ovens start to heat up, so the metal of the oven is hotter and hotter and it effects the profile. So we ended up need