End of the Year Thoughts
Folks, I thought I would post a few short thoughts as the new year begins. Here it goes: 1. A......
Folks, I thought I would post a few short thoughts as the new year begins. Here it goes: 1. A......
Folks, I’m taking a few moments from Wassail Weekend , held annually in my village, Woodstock VT, “The prettiest small town in Americ...
Here is a list of tricks to help you overcome the issues that can arise while hand soldering silicon-based solar cells (and other applications as well...
Folks, Let’s look in on Patty…... Patty was just finishing a report on work that she and Pete had performed with a team of her ACME colle...
Folks, In addition to electronics assembly productivity, solder paste and solder preform applications, and other electronics assembly concerns, many o...
Folks, The Guadalajara (GDL), MX Chapter of the SMTA held their first meeting on November 9 and 10 at CETI in GDL. Approximately 70 engineers from......
My friend and colleague Chris Nash and I were recently discussing some puzzling results for low dip height found during testing of package-on-pac...
Folks, Some time ago, I mentioned that I was working on a consensus of the status of lead-free/RoHS compliant assembly. My hope is to find dat...
Solder powder particle size and shape impacts the functionality of solder paste in many ways: printing/dispensing/dipping; solderballing; graping; voi...
Folks, In a recent posting we discussed that the higher melting temperatures of lead-free solder require reflow soldering temperatures to be higher, t...
Folks, In gathering information on the status of lead-free soldering, some helpful friends pointed out two great sources of information: NA...