Sometimes there are moments when an engineer has to use whatever materials they have to hand in order to complete the job on time. Such a situation arose at the RevSpace hacker space in Den Haag, ...

Imagine having a surface mount kit that you’d like to stencil with solder paste and reflow solder, but which doesn’t come with a solder stencil. That was what faced [Honghong Lu], and she rose to the ...

As electronic systems increase in component density, designers will typically look to match fine 0.10 mm thick solder paste stencils on the pc board to equally fine connectors with a co-planarity not ...

A PCB stencil provides a template that goes over the PCB and has openings only where solder paste needs to be applied. With a glob of solder paste and a squeegee, an entire board can have the solder ...

Removing the use of stencils for applying solder paste seven years ago helped to put Gemini Tec on the path to sustained success and business growth, with PCBA production topping 100,000 units in 2015 ...

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