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Folks, It has been a while, let’s look in on Patty…... Patty had to admit that she was very fortunate. She had yet to t...
Folks, It has been a while, let’s look in on Patty…... Patty had to admit that she was very fortunate. She had yet to t...
Folks, This year will mark the 10th anniversary of SMTA’s SMT Process Certification Course. This course was developed by Jim Hall, Phil Za...
Folks, It is hard to believe that I have been blogging for over 7 years now. In all this time it has surprised me how much interest there has be...
Folks, There is a lot of interest in cleaning PCBs that have been assembled with no-clean solder pastes. Recently I discussed the topic with my ...
Folks, In Ken Burn’s excellent miniseries The Civil War, Shelby Foote states that the Civil War made us a country by uniting No...
Folks, If you need to take a break from topics such as solder paste, solder preforms, tin whiskers, indium TIMs etc, there are a few books I would r...
Folks, Struggling to find a good, royalty-free, video of electronics assembly, my Dartmouth ENGM 185 class on manufacturing processes decided t...
Folks, The impetus for writing the Patty and the Professor series, in 2009, <posts here> <hardcopy book here> came from my obs...
Folks, Pity the copper age smelter of 3000BC. He had to get his wood fire to 1085°C to smelt or melt copper, sometimes he couldn’t get...
Folks, Some time ago I wrote a post, “In Search of Tin Whiskers,” Michael responds below. He makes some good points. Dr. Ron, ...
Musings on Metals: Copper It could be argued that civilization began with the smelting of copper. Although thousands of years before, humans fir...
Folks, One of the nice aspects of being a Professor at Dartmouth is teaching a course like ENGS 1: The Technology of Everyday Things. This cours...