Electronics Forum | Sat Dec 18 15:14:35 EST 2004 | grayman
Weller is a big name in hand soldering. I have beed using weller soldering station even when I was a student in secondary level. I believe that they will have a newer version like 3000S/st or higher. Pricing for these new model is less than US$ 1,900
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 20 21:01:12 EST 2004 | davef
Bare inconel is NOT ment to take solder, because * Nickel develops a tenacious oxide layer that is very difficult to remove since the nature of the oxide is very dense, coherent, etc. * Chromium is difficult to solder. * Iron is difficult to solder.
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 07 09:56:04 EST 2005 | davef
Electroformed stencil suppliers follow. The describe the stencil production process on their sites. * Aplpha Metals [ http://www.alphametals.com/products/ stencils/pdf/PG_Electroform_Stencils.pdf ] * Chepaume [ http://www.chepaume.com/electroforming
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 11 15:22:03 EST 2005 | Shean Dalton
Dear J. Dumont, If the 4512's defoaming package is not active in the distillation process, then you may be dealing with foaming, which is exagerated at boiling point. The 4512's defoaming package may not be carried over in sufficient quantity from
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 18 22:24:25 EST 2005 | davef
For comparisons of flying probe versus bed of nails in-circuit test (ICT), look here: * http://evaluationengineering.com/archive/articles/1100ate.htm * http://www.emtonthenet.net/techfeatures/200404april/technicalarticle_Technology_03.htm * http:/
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 26 11:34:10 EST 2005 | attilio
As per the title. I'm a manufacturing engineer writing from Italy. We have an old oven ETS/Universal branded that needs to replace a control card. It's an IR lamp oven still utilized to cure glue. Unluckily here there's no more availability of the
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 27 11:33:59 EST 2005 | russ
For what you have right now I would recommend that you use soldering iron tips that are made for component removal. until you get BGAs I wouldn't worry a whole lot about the expensive rework equipment. I would use specialty tips and a heat gun wit
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 10 09:14:09 EST 2005 | davef
Don't kid yourself, something has changed. * Worn stencils should produce better release and greater paste deposits than less worn stencils. * Consider inspecting the effectiveness of your cleaning process with a X10 magnifier. * Temperature in your
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 17 15:07:33 EST 2005 | davef
Some of our troop use manual tweezers. Some use 'vacuum pens' things. Vacuum pens are manually operated, vacuum powered. Suppliers of the vacuum pens things are: * Lighter weight, lower strength ** PenVac [www.virtual-ii.com] ** Vampire ** Select
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 22 07:58:16 EST 2005 | davef
We hear you. If it's not broken, why fix it? Right? Well intentioned, but not very educated customers seems to be part of the bane of existance of process engineers at contractors. First, as a previous poster said, paste height is an improper mea
