Applying Solder Preforms - Testing the Assembly
Finally – the fun part! After all of your work specifying the right materials and applying them, at last we can test all of the assumptions we h...
Flux
Making Solder Preforms – Fluxing
Just as with cutting solder preforms, there are many different ways to apply flux to solder preforms. At your facility you might use a liquid or tacky...
Preheating Part IV - Hot Air
My last post talked about the pros and cons of CalRod® style preheaters. This post will be devoted to hot air style preheaters. It makes sense t...
Preheating Part V - Quartz Plate
We continue our discussion of solder reflow methods. As the name suggests, quartz plate preheaters have thick quartz plates in which the heating eleme...
Applying Solder Preforms – Heating (with Guest Star Brandon Judd)
For this week’s World of Solder Preforms series installment, Brandon Judd explains the importance of reflow profiling: Solder preforms are a ver...
Reflow Profiling, Electrical Reliability, No-Clean Solder Paste Flux Residues
It sounds bad for me to say this, but I have a lot of SMT magazines cross my desk and, honestly, the solder paste articles rarely draw my interest. I ...
Preheating - An Introduction: Wave Soldering (A Segmented Synopsis) Post #9
Many of my posts have been discussing the different types of wave soldering fluxers: th...
Making Solder Preforms
Once an order is placed for the solder preforms that you have specified, Indium Corporation begins the manufacturing process promptly; we have a lot o...
Fluxers Part IV - Brush: Wave Soldering (A Segmented Synopsis) Post #8
My last two posts (1) (2) have been about the different facets of spray fluxing and the systems......
Design Solutions for Engineered Solders
Today’s technology simplifies the translation of an idea into a design. A drawing can be dimensioned in an instant. Thermal models and str...
Fluxers Part III B - Spray Fluxer Venting: Wave Soldering (A Segmented Synopsis) Post #7
No matter how accurate the spray fluxer is there will at least be some flux that is not deposited on the board that needs to be removed from the syste...
Fluxers Part III A - The Total Loss System and Spray Fluxing: Wave Soldering (A Segmented Synopsis) Post #6
The total loss system is a method of applying spray flux that utilizes the minimal amount of material to properly create a satisfactory solder joint. ...