Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 04 16:13:09 EDT 2000 | TOOLMANTIM
HELLO BILL I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU 1:HOW ARE YOU CLEANING YOUR STENCIL 2:ARE YOU SINGLE OR DOUBLE PRINTING. 3:ARE YOU USEING VACUUM FIXTURES OR NOT? HERE ARE SOME OTHER THINGS TO TRY. IF YOU ARE CLEANING YOUR STENCIL OFTEN BECAREFUL OF USEING
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 27 17:26:03 EDT 2000 | John Thorup
Hello Christopher You should do just fine without vacuum evacuation of the bag. Just squeeze out any excess air. Just be sure that you use active desiccant (I.E. fresh or baked). This assumes normal environmentals. I suggest that you download the
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 16 11:28:53 EDT 2000 | Boca
Solder 'follows' heat. 1. Preheating is a great idea, use a baking oven to get the whole assembly up to temperature, use the preheaters in your wave solder machine (without wave) to preheat the assemblies ... 2. Or use the biggest soldering iron
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 09 17:34:08 EDT 2000 | Melanie Mulcahy
I need some information regarding the acceptability/unacceptability of using tented vias with LPI soldermask. Long story on all involved, but basically I have a board that I have had manufactured with no problems which has BGA/uBGA parts, tented via
Electronics Forum | Wed May 31 00:43:59 EDT 2000 | Ashok Dhawan
Dear SMTnetters I am using EIA-625 : 1) I was just wondering whether I should be putting ESd Labels for each workstation ( Station #s) In addition to standard ESD protected workstations, I am using chair, mini-tables, carts, shelvings... for handl
Electronics Forum | Wed May 17 10:19:25 EDT 2000 | C.K.
Hey Dave: At our facility, we use those masks that filter out particulates. Our safety department requires all wave operators, maintenance, and even wave process engr's (like me) to have these masks checked every 6 months for proper gasketing, filte
Electronics Forum | Wed May 17 13:33:32 EDT 2000 | John Thorup
Absolutely Mike Lets take that one step further and say that almost anything that you use to clean up with will from then on be considered hazardous waste. Wiping rags/pads, the previously mentioned vacuum bags/filters, the piece of cardboard that yo
Electronics Forum | Sat May 13 07:03:16 EDT 2000 | Sal
guys, Currently running a very high volume product, with the gold fingers at the edge of the board masked off using Kapton tape to avoid any form of contamination during reflow and wavesoldering. I've heard alot of about the gold finger gloves, my q
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 12 20:56:18 EDT 2000 | Dave F
Kevin: You're correct. Loose the glue, unless you're waving second side or have real heavy components. Check the archives for component weights, references, and what not. I believe that most people (let's see a show of hands kids) are using two pa
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 23 11:12:47 EST 2000 | TMV
This note is in response to your question about not being able to recognize a component that is running on a 4796 but has problems on a 4791. The 4791 and 4796 used two different recognition systems and the lighting calibration will be not be the s
