you’ll eventually find yourself doing some soldering, whether by hand, reflow, or maybe even a fancy wave soldering machine. It’s a fundamental skill that nevertheless remains one of the ...

It’s not really a problem that has a commercial solution since in production, wave soldering brings molten solder to the underside of the board and gravity does the clamping. The inspiration for ...

However, these fluxes may not reach the required temperature during a wave soldering operation if they are shielded from the molten solder. Because assembly houses believe these fluxes do not need to ...

The boards then had to go through a follow-up wave soldering step. Now Pi boards have their tiny bits and bigger pieces soldered at the same time through an intrusive reflow soldering process ...

In today's most prevalent soldering method -- wave soldering -- a pump in the solder tank creates waves in the molten metal. As the solder pallet and its PCB passenger pass through the tank at a fixed ...

Electro-plating would be an obvious choice to make the vias conductive, except for one minor problem: only already-conducting surfaces can be electro-plated. To get around this, the board is ...

An atomic-scale conveyor belt may also be the smallest soldering iron ever created. The new device, which ferries molten metal, is made from carbon nanotubes just 20 millionths of a millimetre in ...

One of the waves on the pegs currently is the latest Spider-Man wave, featuring a mix of figures from the comics and Spider-Man: Far From Home, including the BAF of Molten Man. The villains ...

A subsequent soldering step, where boards passed through a molten solder bath, was used to secure everything in place. The improvements led to a 50 percent reduction in product returns ...

The Molten salt reactor Of all the advanced reactor ... (See the next installment for more about small modular reactors.) The traveling wave reactor The traveling wave reactor (TWR) is the brain ...