Melting Point - Tip of the Iceburg for Hand Soldering
This is a blog post about a great post that may never be… Unless a solder iron vendor wants to step up and declare that they offer technical su...
Rework
Connected Preforms Used to Streamline Soldering
Soldering through-hole connectors can be a tedious task. Connector Specifier recently highlighted an article by principal engineer, Paul Socha d...
The Best Flux For Hand Soldering and Rework
Solder Basics… If I needed to pick my favorite flux for hand soldering, it would easily be PoP Flux 030B. I know it’s probably...
Enlist the Experts before Choosing a Solder Alloy for Chip Attach
A few of Indium’s solder experts ready to assist. I am well aware that many of you are now working in stressed out, short-handed workplaces and ...
Is DI-Water Becoming an Obsolete Cleaning Agent?
For our second guest blogger i would like to introduce Dr. Harald Wack, President of Zestron. Zestron is manufacturer of flux residue cleaners a...
Solder Alloy Powder Misconceptions
For a change of pace, again, I have asked another Technical Support Engineer, Chris Nash, to comment about powder sizes. Chris is the Regional T...
Why Use a Cold Pack?
Pictured here are thermal profiles for a product packaged in different ways and allowed to warm up to room temperature ......
Hand Soldering Tip Temperatures
image: www.purexltd.co.uk How hot are you setting your solder iron for hand soldering using solder wire or preforms? If you are cranking up the solder...
Meet The Bloggers – An Interesting Mix
As mentioned last week, we are holding another Meet The Bloggers at SMTAI on Aug. 20th. If you are......
Stock Up
I recently visited a customer to help optimize a flux-less indium soldering application. They admitted they needed flux but didn’t......
False Economy
Folks, I recently met a colleague and the following discussion ensued: Dr. Ron (DR): How are things? Colleague©: Kinda discouraging at my......
Universal Technology Update; Is your process biased?
At what point in new product development does the solder get updated with the rest of......