Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 29 18:35:59 EDT 1999 | JohnW
| | Could somebody tell me what means Leaching, ie: "Leaching of terminal end face exposing the ceramic"? | | | Roberto: Leaching, according to the SMTnet Library of Terms: | | Leaching. Dissolution of a metal coating into liquid solder. Nickel ba
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 25 12:07:00 EDT 1999 | John Thorup
| | hello, | | | | has anyone tried dispensing solder paste in thru holes instead of waving or hand soldering. if so how did it work out for you. | | thanks for the input | | | | wayne | | | | | | | We have tried this mainly on thru hole connect
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 28 14:36:34 EDT 1999 | John Thorup
| | I am looking for a way to clean solder off of QFP packages. I'm thinking a chemical method would be easy, as long as the chemistry doesn't attack the leads themselves, or the package. | | Any suggestions? | | | Dear Matt, | | I have a customer
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 22 17:37:51 EDT 1999 | Dave F
| I was wondering if anybody could give an estimated cost of equipment maintenance per year for a complete SMT line for | a medium volume facility? | John: Budgeting for maintenance from two perspectives: 1 We budget 1 percent of the capital cos
Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 05 07:37:25 EDT 1999 | Dave F
| We are changing from through-hole to SMT, wondering what pitch requirements would an 8 pin SOAC require for pick and place? We think that this would be our finest pitch part. | John: Never heard of an "SOAC." SO packages are 50 ptch (50 mil, 1
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 02 19:31:01 EDT 1999 | Tony
| | | Dear All, | | | | | | We are a medium sized sub contract manufacturing house, engaged in high mix, medium volume production. We are using no clean as well as Aqueous cleaning process. we are planning to buy a new wave soldering machine out o
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 07 11:25:41 EDT 1999 | Brian Wycoff
| | | I have difficulty to convince my management to air-condition our manufacturing facilities. The room temperature fluxuates from 8 deg.C in the morning to 25 deg. C in the afternoon. The PCB topside temperatures in the reflow oven and wave solder
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 07 16:52:51 EDT 1999 | Dave F
| | | | I have difficulty to convince my management to air-condition our manufacturing facilities. The room temperature fluxuates from 8 deg.C in the morning to 25 deg. C in the afternoon. The PCB topside temperatures in the reflow oven and wave sold
Electronics Forum | Fri May 28 07:37:52 EDT 1999 | Steve Cheung
Yes l know this problem keeps cropping up on the forum but l've missed some of the follow-ups. Our problem is that the lifting only occurs on 3% of production so actually detecting an improvement is difficult. We're actually having to inspect 144 p
Electronics Forum | Mon May 24 10:45:04 EDT 1999 | John Thorup
| Can anyone help me with the correct baking cycle for removing moisture for PWB's. These are 10 layer double sided SMT. | | Thank You R. J. Klein Wassink in Soldering in Electronics states - 16 hours @ 105C or 40 hours @ 80C in a ventilated oven
