Newsletter: December 15, 2009

Hot Air Rework Review

When surface-mount components started to take over, edging out through-hole components, a number of hot air-based rework systems appeared on the scene. Many were large, some small, but all had various means of delivering hot air to the component with varying degrees of process control.

Despite their diversity, they all had one thing in common -- they were fine for removing components from a circuit board, but none were particularly good at ...

Solder Mask Touch-Up At BGA Sites

Solder mask has one primary purpose at a BGA site, and that is to isolate solder wetting to a specific area, e.g., the BGA pad, so that a good solder joint will be formed.

This solder mask usually isolates the pad from the conductor, or from the track leading to a via or plated hole. Sometimes there is only a thin "dam" of mask between the pad area and exposed track and hole.

This dam or masking is delicate, and easily damaged or dislodged during rework. If it isn't repaired, the result ...

Broken Pin Repair

While working with an extremely expensive pin grid array style component, a customer reported that they broke off a pin at the base near the component body.

The shoulder of the pin was approximately twice the diameter of the main pin body and approximately .50" (12.7 mm) in length. Is it possible to repair damage to a component like ...

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With the advancement of today's modern circuit board technology, it is more important than ever to have specialists available to help you at a moment's notice.

Our mission is simple. Save you money, save you time, and make your company more profitable.

Jeff Ferry, President
Peter Vigneau, VP/GM
Andy Price, Sales/Marketing Manager

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