Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 07 10:56:38 EDT 2006 | Chunks
In the past, I would normally tell out highly talented inspectors to leave the balls there. The were trapped in the flux residue and were hard to remove. Never caused a problem. But then there was an incident where someone had the bright idea to u
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 15 20:41:54 EDT 2006 | davef
Alpha UP78 was a modern solder paste. Check with your supplier for recommendations. You're are cleaning some flux residue with the IPA and reducing the leakage current. We're not wild about using IPA. Problems with IPA are: * IPA / material being
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 04 23:52:57 EDT 2012 | rway
Actually, if you experience lack of witness marks, you probably have a problem. Witness marks are OK and will not affect your assembly. I assume this is an SMT assembly we are talking about, in which case, this is what your test pads are for. You
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 09 14:09:06 EDT 2014 | jorge_quijano
Hola... I'm in the middle of a project to reduce assembly time in one of our products, this product has a lot of TH connectors to be soldered by hand, I'm implementing PHIR, first run has been completed, the appearance of the solder joints are obvio
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 25 13:23:02 EDT 2019 | SMTA-Joe
Hello SMTA, This may be beyond the scope of the SMTA since it does not strictly deal with assembly of electronics, rather, it is about potential solderless methods for manually tuning RF circuits. Our Engineers & QC have tasked manufacturing with
Electronics Forum | Thu May 04 01:52:17 EDT 2023 | davef
Look at IPC-7526 - Stencil and Misprinted Board Cleaning Handbook, Misprinted Circuit Board CleaningCLEANING [ https://www.multi-circuit-boards.eu/fileadmin/user_upload/downloads/leiterplatten_design-hilfe/ipc-7526.pdf ] ITW/EAE says "Typically, th
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 05 12:10:36 EDT 2017 | duchoang
Thank you for your replies. We use No-Clean Paste and some customers do not want any residue left around solder joint even so, so little. They want the residue washed completely. If we use water-soluble flux, we still need to wash, anyway. Their conc
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 08 10:07:26 EST 1999 | Chrys
| I'm in the process of moving from water washable flux to a full no clean process for the wave soldering process, thing's seem to be going well (so far...). | The one problem I still have is cleaning the wave solder carrier's to remove the no clean
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 18 19:53:58 EST 1999 | Rob F
| | I'm in the process of moving from water washable flux to a full no clean process for the wave soldering process, thing's seem to be going well (so far...). | | The one problem I still have is cleaning the wave solder carrier's to remove the no cl
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 18 21:46:27 EDT 2001 | davef
It's possible that combining these two fluxes is benign, you sure can't say your customer is wrong, can you???? So, what is the intent of leaving these two different flux materials on your board? What is the residue remaining on your board as your
