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Flux Activators: What they are / What they do
A colleague in California was on the phone last week: “We need a flux with greater activity!” He said. Choking down comments like “M...
Pb-Free Solders are Not the Cause of Tin Whiskers
Tin Whiskers growing between pure tin-plated hook terminals of an electromagnetic relay. Image courtesy of nepp.nasa.gov ......
Mentos, Diet Coke, and Mixed Alloy Voiding
Most of you have probably seen videos of countless Mentos/Diet Coke experiments all over the internet. If you are one of the few who have not, t...
Dispelling 10 Myths about Nitrogen Reflow (part II)
...and we’re back with more nitrogen and inert soldering myths. Part I of this post can be found here. Myth 6: “I turned on......
Dispelling 10 Myths about Nitrogen Reflow (part I)
In my twenty years in the electronics manufacturing industry, I have heard a lot of claims made about the use of nitrogen in inerted soldering ...
Exhibitions in the era of DO AND GLOOM
A low-cost exhibit offers simple elegance and dignity to customers and staffers. I recently posted that, while the economy is still gener...
Heatsink Mounting using Heat-Spring TIM
The heatsink can be mounted uniformly using the Heat-Spring as a TIM because......
How Much Metal is in Solder Paste?
Something that seems counter-intuitive to many customers, yet seems obvious to a rheologist is why the percent metal loading of solder paste vari...
Inextricably Intertwined
A passage from Metals Handbook, Volume 6, 1983Ӕ According to the Encarta Dictionary that......
Share Your Solar Images
Do you have interesting pictures of a solar installation, solar cells, or solar module assembly that you’d like to share?span......