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Rework departments often encounter large through-hole components on high-mass circuit boards, or components with heat sinks. The solder fountain machine is ideal for this type of rework. With the introduction of lead-free solders, the use of solder fountains has increased.
A solder fountain can transfer large amounts of heat to a specific area very quickly. A normally laborious and time-consuming procedure with a desoldering tool is completed quickly and with relative ease.
However, the strength of the solder fountain system is also its chief danger. Solder can overflow or spatter ...
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Clean up your act when bonding wires. Wire Dots make the job of bonding jumper wires neat and fast.
Wire Dots are a wire tacking system consisting of pre-cut shapes of a thin, flexible polymer film coated on one side with a high performance, electronics grade permanent pressure sensitive adhesive. The result is a highly conformable, high strength bond.
Wire Dots will hold secure after exposure to numerous chemicals including cleaning solutions/sprays, saponifiers, mild acids and alkalies. And will hold secure through a typical circuit board hot water wash.
Normal Price $39.95/package - Special Offer Price $19.95/package.
Offer expires July 31, 2014.
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What do you do when a flash memory SD card containing photos of President George W. Bush and your client in the White House breaks into pieces, leaving you holding one of the tiny microchips you know full well should be inside?
The answer probably won't surprise you one bit: Take a deep breath and try to remain calm. This will provide you with no practical benefit. It will, however, afford you just enough time to really mull over how completely screwed you might be.
After an epic effort to gain access to the White House and nab a camera that would actually be allowed inside, a photographer was able to take hundreds of photos of his clients and G.W. at the White House, only to see the Flash memory SD card that contained all the data snap to pieces in his hands like a ...
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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.
Solder mask usually isolates the pad from the conductor, or from the track leading to a via or plated hole. Sometimes the track and hole are completely masked; 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 often more rework, or rework upon rework!
Once a BGA device is removed from a site, that site must be prepared before the replacement process. Preparing usually involves removing residual solder from the BGA pads on the circuit board, typically done with a soldering iron and copper braid solder wicking material. Then the rework area is cleaned ...
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Send in an order for BGA Rework services and we will generate the BGA Rework Profile at 50% off the standard price, a $125.00 savings. Offer Expires July 31, 2014. Coupon Code: SV774
To redeem this special offer, visit our BGA services page and print out a copy of the coupon outlined in red and include with the items being shipped to Circuit Technology Center.
BGA Rework - 50% off Profile Cost
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