LEAD-FREE SOLDERING

 

¨ How will the European Directive banning the use of lead in electronic and electrical equipment impact your business?

 

¨ Have you the knowledge and information you need to meet the

         regulations?

 

¨ Do you know how to go about it, when you need to be lead-free

         and when you need to start preparing?

 

¨ Would you like some simple and straightfoward help?

 

“A Guide To Lead-Free Soldering for Assemblers & Sub-contractors”,

written by Roger Bilham, a metallurgist with many years’ experience developing and making solder products, is a concise source of the information you need. A Guide To Lead-Free Soldering is available, priced £35.00 +vat, as a PDF file by e-mail or on CD.

 

Topics covered in its 48 pages include:

 

·  Legal position in Europe, USA and Japan

·  Lead-free alloy requirements - technical and economic

·  Problems posed by lead-free solders

·  Melting temperatures

·  Oxidation and corrosion

·  Fillet lifting & cracking

·  Tombstoning

·  Tin whiskers

·  Tin pest

·  Potential and practical lead-free alloys with their properties

·  High temperature, high lead solder -component internal connections, nonmelting columns and balls  

·  Patents

·  Lead-free circuit board finishes

·  Lead-free hot air solder levelling

·  Components for lead-free soldering -temperature capabilities and terminations

·  Fluxes

·  Mixed lead-free and lead-containing solders & finishes

·  Lead-free process challenges - cost, temperature, process window, machine issues, flux residues

·  Defects, inspection and quality

·  Repair and rework

·  Solder variety and standardisation

·  Use of nitrogen

·  Lead-free in the reflow process - temperature profile, machine implications

·  Lead-free in the wave process - composition changes, machine implications

·  Lead-free vapour phase soldering

·  Environmental and cost disadvantages of lead-free solders

·  Logistics of introducing lead-free solders

·  Sources of further information

 

 

 

    Orders to:  sales@zeltekbt.co.uk     or   Direct                   

 

 

 

 

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