Circuit Board Rework and Repair Services
Component Tinning and Reballing
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June 12, 2019
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When gold edge contacts become worn, damaged or contaminated by solder, they must be either repaired and replated, or replaced.

Both procedures result in a high conformance level repair that is reliable and long lasting. Re-plating is a reliable, yet complicated, process requiring a considerable amount of setup, special chemistry that is hazardous and, in general, a high level of operator skill and training ...
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I work in an auto glass factory and we're having problems soldering the defrost cable wire to the windshield grid pattern. I think it has to do with factory temperature as it is very hot over 100 degrees F. It is also extremely humid with levels reaching close to 100 percent. What can we do to improve the solder ...
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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.

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.

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For this repair we're looking at the process to correct base board damage at an ejector handle location. The ejector handle is often held in place by a roll pin that is pressed into a non plated hole on the circuit board. When the ejector handle is retracted, the lever action will be used to press in, or eject the circuit board into, or out of a connector, or card cage. With this action, the ...
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