Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 10 13:56:51 EST 2001 | slthomas
1) The additional activity of the OA flux probably took care of the oxydation. How do you plan on taking care of the presence of conductive and corrosive residues from it now, though? You're not supposed to wash those parts with water. 2) The tomb
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 09 18:17:15 EST 2002 | Chris
I don't have a plasma cleaner either. It will help a lot. Actually I don't clean at all. Our wirebond pads are far enough away so the flux residue does not get on the wirebond pads. That's what we think anyway. I am sure we have some degree of c
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 01 03:03:08 EST 2002 | madreindeer
Hi, That is very common in WS pastes.It is white residue (Salt) Usually it�s not dangerous it only looking bad. I think best way would be contact your paste supplier and they should know what would take a stain off if not, change supplier. There i
Electronics Forum | Sun Jan 20 21:03:34 EST 2002 | peterson
Hello everyone! We just completed some 16-layer boards and noticed (after wave soldering) that there are some unique, white-ish discolorations. It looks as if someone layed their finger at weird angles on the groundplane areas. It is NOT finger prin
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 20 20:20:29 EST 2002 | davef
I saw Bradbury's last two races. Luck comes around. What do they say? "Luck is the residue of hard work." Two things: 1 I know what a smashed crab looks like and I cannot find anything like that on the link you gave. 2 All of that for a longneck
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 25 15:09:06 EST 2002 | jax
Kelvin, You can find the Standard acceptable levels and testing procedures from IPC. Here's a little advice from the fellas' over at PCFAB: As a guideline, we recommend that for assemblies processed with low-solids flux technology and that are not cl
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 05 17:38:54 EST 2002 | davef
We socket no parts prior to the wave. This practice is an artifact of the days when we�d solder PTH socketed parts from the heat of the wave being conducted through the socket leads to the leads of the component. Sockets??? Thaint sockets no more.
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 15 22:37:27 EDT 2002 | davef
Regarding your customer suditor, it would have been nice if you said something like ... Routinely, our testing shall be less than 1.56 microgram/cm^2 NaCl equivalent ionic or ionizable flux residue, according to TM-650, Method 2.3.35 'Detection And
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 18 16:57:41 EDT 2002 | cfraser
Currently in our facility we store used and discarded flux residues from the wave solder machines in 50 gallon drums. These drums are picked up and disposed of by an outside contractor. During a recent audit we were cited for not having the drums pr
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 23 14:20:48 EDT 2002 | russ
We have not yet sent this out for analysis, So, I don't really know what it is. initial evaluation would lead me to believe that it is flux since it is only present on the solder joints themselves and nowhere else. I noticed that you also mentioned
