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...
Solder Preforms
Making Solder Preforms – Cutting
There are many more ways to cut a solder preform than most customers realize. We use each of these methods depending on the volume, precision, or comp...
Applying Solder Preforms
OK! We’ve discussed specifying solder preforms and making solder preforms, although none of that is important until we actually use the preforms...
Applying Solder Preforms – Compression
Most people think of our alloys only in the ‘soldering’ sense. However, these same materials may be used in applications where they aren&r...
Reflow of Solder Preforms
Interested in the effect your reflow profile can have on solder preforms? Check out my guest post on Jim Hisert’s blog! Applying Sold...
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 ...
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...
Making Solder Preforms - Secondary Processing
So by now in our process we have a form of metal that should have exactly the alloy you have requested, but a large piece of solder isn’t going ...
Making Solder Preforms: Alloying
When it comes to manufacturing solder preforms, alloying solder is an important first step in providing consistent final parts. This is the step where...
Specifying Solder Preforms - Getting an Indium Corporation Applications Engineer Involved
Many of us technical type people bypass asking for help if we can get along without it. Regarding the cliché of the person who keeps traveling ...
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...