Article: Vapor phase rework station.(Product PREVIEW)

Article: Getting the vapors: The increasing use of lead-free solder has ...
Assembly;  February 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... volume applications. Vapor phase reflow was primarily ... critical boards. "Vapor phase tends to be used more ... engineer at R&D Technical Services (Burnsville, MN ... remaining manufacturers of vapor phase reflow equipment ...

Article: Inline vapor phase reflow.(Product SPOTLIGHT)
Circuits Assembly;  December 1, 2007 ;     366 words ...RD52 vapor phase reflow system has inline processing for volume production. Offers adjustable pin ... of 200 C[degrees] to 320 C[degrees]. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] R & D Technical Services, rdtechnicalservices.com

Article: Vapor phase rework station.(Product SPOTLIGHT)
Circuits Assembly;  June 1, 2008 ;     373 words ... ... y and z adjustment; vacuum system; bottom-side global preheat; semiautomatic cycle for component removal and replacement, and cool-down function. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] R&D Technical Services, rdtechnicalservices.com

Article: A New Approach to Vapor Phase Reflow Soldering
SMT;  November 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... has generated renewed interest in vapor phase reflow soldering for thermally challenging PCBAs. Although vapor phase soldering - also called condensation ... process, and describes a new method of vapor phase soldering. The introduction of lead ...

Article: Beating the RoHS heat: for RoHS PCBs, vapor phase ...
Circuits Assembly;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Vapor phase reflow is not a new process for electronics ... early 70s. Most engineers familiar with vapor phase recall the technology's early shortcomings ... of these shortcomings. As a result, vapor phase is becoming a viable alternative to ...

Article: Vapor phase lubrication: new theory on hot oil. ...
Popular Science;  July 1, 1991 ;     700+ words ... ... 1976, was to apply the lubricant in a vapor phase. The lubricant was heated and carried ... monolayers. The high temperatures of the vapor-phase lubricant did not cool the die, and ... Thus was born the philosophy of vapor-phase lubrication, the product of the simultaneous ...

Article: Vapor phase (re)visited: out of favor for decades, ...
Circuits Assembly;  April 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Vapor phase was the original and principal mass ... assemblies. In the past few years, vapor phase has experienced renewed interest primarily ... with Pb-free assembly. The first vapor phase reflow systems used the same configuration ...