Posted On: April 22nd, 2015 | By: Brandon Judd

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...

Posted On: April 16th, 2015 | By: Adam Murling

Preheating Part I - Types of Preheaters

I mentioned, in my last post, that preheating is needed to decrease wave soldering cost. With trying to decrease the cost of the wave soldering proces...

Posted On: April 13th, 2015 | By: Indium Corporation®

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 ...

Posted On: April 9th, 2015 | By: Adam Murling

Preheating - An Introduction: Wave Soldering (A Segmented Synopsis) Post #9

Many of my posts have been discussing the different types of wave soldering fluxers: th...

Posted On: April 8th, 2015 | By: Dr. Ron Lasky

Alloy Melting

Folks, Richard asks: Dear Dr. Ron, Recently we had a solderability problem with tin-finished component leads and SAC305 solder paste. One of our...

Posted On: April 6th, 2015 | By: Indium Corporation®

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...

Posted On: April 2nd, 2015 | By: Adam Murling

Fluxers Part IV - Brush: Wave Soldering (A Segmented Synopsis) Post #8

My last two posts (1) (2) have been about the different facets of spray fluxing and the systems......

Posted On: April 1st, 2015 | By: Indium Corporation®

Industry Trend - Underwater Soldering

As more and more of the electronics industry moves toward (SMA) Subaquatic Microelectronics Assembly, questions have arisen regarding safety aspects, ...

Posted On: March 31st, 2015 | By: Seth Homer

Design Solutions for Engineered Solders

Today’s technology simplifies the translation of an idea into a design. A drawing can be dimensioned in an instant. Thermal models and str...

Posted On: March 26th, 2015 | By: Adam Murling

Fluxers Part III B - Spray Fluxer Venting: Wave Soldering (A Segmented Synopsis) Post #7

No matter how accurate the spray fluxer is there will at least be some flux that is not deposited on the board that needs to be removed from the syste...