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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: wave soldering machines - would they tin a board?

2005-08-15 by Stefan Trethan

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:38:51 +0200, Bob_xyz <bob_barr@...> wrote:

> Unless you had something blowing the molten solder out of the holes,
> I'd expect that the solder would wick into all of the holes. A wave
> solder machine fills the holes when there are leads present. Without
> the leads, I'd expect that to still occur.
> Without solder mask, I'd also expect you'd get a lot of shorting of
> adjacent traces even with a very wide separation between them.
> /speculation>
> Somebody makes a chemical solution that does what you're looking
> for. IIRC, it's called 'Tinnit'.
> Regards, Bob


i suspect the same.

i do not like anything with thiourea for health reasons so electroless is  
out.


thanks


ST

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