Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 16 10:19:36 EST 2007 | slthomas
Then how do we explain the poor printing performance (appears to be rheology based, paste thickening/drying, poor aperture fill, sticking to the blades, etc.) of paste that has exceeded it's shelf life? You know, the stuff that no amount of stirring
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 16 15:42:45 EST 2007 | slthomas
Now yer talkin'! FTR, I've seen 7 month old (5 month shelf life in a 45� F fridge) WS based pastes in tubes turn to clay and refuse to print through anything less than about 50 mil pitch. This was stuff stored in the fridge per mfr's spec. I suspe
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 17 17:09:43 EST 2007 | russ
appears to be incomplete reflow on a couple of balls or they were moved during a cooldown. it also seems as though there is a deviation in ball size due to inconsistant paste application possibly. I would stop applying paste and just reflow that pa
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 08 14:55:30 EST 2007 | pavel_murtishev
Good evening, I do. 2mil overprint is not critical. Paste will simply flow back. Paste flows back even with larger overprint (up to 15mil at least). 5mil stencil thickness if fine also. BGA area ratio for both BGAs is higher than 0.66 required by IP
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 12 15:57:25 EST 2007 | pr
Anybody out there using this with lead free paste and willing to share the good and bad? I used them a few years back and had some issues (wasted paste, paste bleeding out around the skids). Just curious if DEK has addressed those problems and how cu
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 01 14:13:23 EST 2007 | Brandon
We have a bunch of used solder paste we need removed from our facility. Who provides this type of service for a fair reasonable fee? We are in Austin, Texas and use loctite solder paste. Our supplier is Hisco, but they only provide this service for A
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 01 16:47:05 EST 2007 | ratsalad
The guys that take our dross (and pay us for it) take our barrels that contain scrapped solder paste as well. Also in the barrels are the nitrile gloves and disposable towels used in solder paste handling and cleaning. They pay us for the metal c
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 08 18:39:06 EST 2007 | elias67
Stencil Thickness should be .005" A reduction along with cross hatching is a must for the center pad to reduce paste volume as well as to assure even paste deposit while printing on a large pad. With out the cross hatch, the squeegie will most like
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 15 09:11:06 EDT 2007 | jdengler
Chrissie, This varies widely by paste, room temperature, and humidity. You would need to do a DOE for you exact set-up. Since you say the room is uncontrolled you need to keep in mind that time will drop as temperature goes up. Different pastes re
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 19 12:25:11 EDT 2007 | slthomas
This test nicely demonstrates the bond between parts and paste over time, but what about tack of paste on unpopulated boards? It seems she would also need to be testing by placing parts on boards that have been printed for 15 minutes, 30, 1 hour, 2
