Fluxers Part III - Spray: Wave Soldering (A Segmented Synopsis) Post #5
Spray Fluxing is the most common way to flux a printed circuit board today. When spray fluxers were first developed they were clumsy, inefficient......
Flux
Fluxers Part II - Wave: Wave Soldering (A Segmented Synopsis) Post #4
When the wave soldering machine was developed, the early flux application method was the same as the solder application method – a wave. While t...
Specifying Solder Preforms - Engineering Drawing/Specification
Previously we discussed the importance of dimensions and tolerances in the specification of solder preforms, however these data points are best expres...
Fluxers Part I - Foam: Wave Soldering (A Segmented Synopsis) Post #3
A wave solder machine’s foam fluxer is a device in which compressed air is fed through a porous tube (commonly referred......
Fluxers - An Introduction: Wave Soldering (A Segmented Synopsis) Post #2
Flux is an essential component in the creation of a solder joint. For the sake of this post, I will be referencing flux as it is used in wave sol...
Wave Soldering (A Segmented Synopsis): Post #1
There are many types of wave solder machines, each with their own quirks, characteristics, and personalities. The good news is, each has the same core...
Specifying Solder Preforms – Flux
Flux... It would be great to live in a world where we didn’t need it. Unfortunately, that same oxygen that keeps us alive slowly erodes the sold...
The World of Solder Preforms
Here at Indium Corporation we produce many forms of solder. With products like solder ingots, solder paste, and solder wire, we supply the alloys our ...
Specifying Solder Preforms
This is arguably the greatest time in history to be a consumer. A quick trip to the grocery store for something as simple as milk becomes a series of ...
The Largest Trade-off in Printing UltraFine Solder Pastes is in Reflow
In a six-part SMT assembly series, we discussed the advantages of using fine powder solder pastes to improve process yields for stencil printing, espe...
Who Makes Your Solder Preforms?
This year I’ve had the chance to work, and become friends, with Bryan Dygert, one of our solder preform manufacturing work cell operators at the...