Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 02 09:02:10 EDT 2005 | dougs
you tell me, the customer has started to pull at some of the leads of some IC's with tweezers while de-bugging boards that had failed in the field, he was able to pull some of the leads away from the solder joints, we feel he may be over-doing it a
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 02 16:34:43 EDT 2007 | jmelson
Ungar used to sell a little tube of clear stuff that they called something like "tip anti-seize". I used it on Imperial irons, back in the days before electronic temperature control. The pure copper threads on the heating element would seize to the
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 07 15:02:48 EDT 2009 | snsmt
Hello everyone, I have a question regarding rework. How do you guys rework QFPs (lead free)? The only method that we are currently doing is using a heat gun. We are heating up the bottom of the PCB (approx. 2") away from the bottom of the
Electronics Forum | Fri May 15 00:07:38 EDT 2015 | aapsmt
there can be so many different causes. can be component library height issues. step program z axis offsets - i have seen accidental positive values entered so the components are literally dropped onto the pcb haha. but it does depend on the size of
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 13 13:04:52 EDT 2018 | jrs192
Hello! Recently started buying PCBs with peelable mask to remove the need for Kapton tape. Had no issues with our first batch, but our supplier has over-cured the second batch - it comes off in tiny bits, and is stuck in the holes. After timing the
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 27 08:59:15 EST 2020 | spoiltforchoice
In both cases, it will depend on storage conditions, unless you do something horrible to them (or as previously mentioned, wash them) months & months. For boards we put through SMT and then stash for THT loading in smaller qty's I don't think we've e
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 30 17:47:57 EDT 2020 | rsatmech
Manual method is always risky. Evening with all sorts of scanning people are loading it wrongly. Below are the recommendations I have. (Kindly comment if anything don't seems to be a solution) 1) peer to peer check - once loaded check the value usin
Electronics Forum | Sat Mar 06 08:01:45 EST 1999 | Scott Cook
| Can someone please advise me to the rework procedure for removal and replacing Ceramic Chip Capacitors (e.g. 0805, 1206, etc.)? | | Is it necessary to pre-heat ceramic capacitors before soldering them onto a PCB with a soldering iron? Is this just
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 13 12:08:57 EST 2000 | Stefan Witte
Apparently the adhesive tape peels off from the joint, which could have some reasons. 1. There should be an overlap of the cover tape, as Cal mentioned. The new cover tape laying over the old by approx. 2mm. I also peel the cover tape a bit off, whi
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 06 07:30:46 EDT 2000 | John
Ralph, Typically our co-op students put down solder paste with a syringe, place the parts on the paste with tweezers, and then reflow the paste with a hot air pencil. This works pretty well when they are hand building prototypes. You can probably
