Products
Cobar Solder Products’ has sold over 200 units of its COBOX retrofittable spray fluxer.
Lance Larrabee, general manager, announced in a press release that “the COBOX 'Plug'n Spray' spray fluxer is a simple, drop-in replacement for foam, wave and first-generation spray-fluxers. It works with virtually any type of no-clean, alcohol or water-based, or VOC-free flux. Because it is so flexible, easy to clean and simple to install and operate, it has become especially popular, with over two hundred units sold since its introduction.”
The fluxer is easy to disassemble and service, manufactured of stainless steel and titanium parts and features a magnetically-driven nozzle assembly. Its simple design, computer-controlled movement and short distance of 50 mm (2”) to the board surface, ensures uniform wetting and through-hole penetration/top side wicking without excess deposition or flux waste. Reportedly saves more than 60% of flux over comparable foam-type fluxers.
Designed to work with the typical range for surface tension and capillary viscosity of water-based (VOC-free) fluxes, and eliminates over and under spraying problems. Features an air-driven, high precision nozzle with an adjustable cone. Is a field-retrofittable system, compatible with many soldering systems, and includes a fluxing unit, control cabinet and exhaust hood.
Lance Larrabee, general manager, announced in a press release that “the COBOX 'Plug'n Spray' spray fluxer is a simple, drop-in replacement for foam, wave and first-generation spray-fluxers. It works with virtually any type of no-clean, alcohol or water-based, or VOC-free flux. Because it is so flexible, easy to clean and simple to install and operate, it has become especially popular, with over two hundred units sold since its introduction.”
The fluxer is easy to disassemble and service, manufactured of stainless steel and titanium parts and features a magnetically-driven nozzle assembly. Its simple design, computer-controlled movement and short distance of 50 mm (2”) to the board surface, ensures uniform wetting and through-hole penetration/top side wicking without excess deposition or flux waste. Reportedly saves more than 60% of flux over comparable foam-type fluxers.
Designed to work with the typical range for surface tension and capillary viscosity of water-based (VOC-free) fluxes, and eliminates over and under spraying problems. Features an air-driven, high precision nozzle with an adjustable cone. Is a field-retrofittable system, compatible with many soldering systems, and includes a fluxing unit, control cabinet and exhaust hood.
Cobar BV, cobar.com
QTEK Stencil Clean removes solder paste, Pb-free pastes and other stencil print materials. Suitable for use in both vacuum and non-vacuum under-stencil cleaning mechanisms.
Formulated specifically for the removal of stencil contaminants, and is effective on solder paste residue.
The aliphatic hydrocarbon chemistry is non-flammable and non-corrosive, safe for use with stencils, frames, boards and the printer itself. Contains no ozone-depleting substances, is RoHS and WEEE compliant.
Penetrates solder paste and lifts it from the screen, removing contaminants from small apertures without scouring the stencil surface.
Has a high evaporation rate to leave surfaces clean and dry, and is said to provide superior solvency, as well as good wetting and dispersing characteristics.
QTEK Manufacturing Ltd., qtek.com
Formulated specifically for the removal of stencil contaminants, and is effective on solder paste residue.
The aliphatic hydrocarbon chemistry is non-flammable and non-corrosive, safe for use with stencils, frames, boards and the printer itself. Contains no ozone-depleting substances, is RoHS and WEEE compliant.
Penetrates solder paste and lifts it from the screen, removing contaminants from small apertures without scouring the stencil surface.
Has a high evaporation rate to leave surfaces clean and dry, and is said to provide superior solvency, as well as good wetting and dispersing characteristics.
QTEK Manufacturing Ltd., qtek.com
Valor has announced full support and integration with all Siplace Pro Siemens placement systems.
Siemens users can benefit from Trilogy 5000 functionality, including fast, accurate CAD/BOM load, stencil optimization, rotation neutralization, machine/line optimization and balancing, Virtual Sticky Tape (VST) to reduce NPI debug time and advanced grouping functions (for low-/mid-volume, high-mix environments. Through Siplace Pro, the steps to final program generation are fewer and faster.
Julian Coates, Valor’s executive VP for marketing and product management, said, “The seamless integration between Valor’s Trilogy 5000 advanced assembly line engineering solution and the powerful Siplace Pro open interface delivers tremendous cost savings to Siemens customers by generating the fastest route from data load to optimized machine program generation. Siemens customers will enjoy reduced NPI cycle time, increased shop floor productivity, and quicker machine programming and set-up times.”
Valor Computerized Systems, valor.com
Julian Coates, Valor’s executive VP for marketing and product management, said, “The seamless integration between Valor’s Trilogy 5000 advanced assembly line engineering solution and the powerful Siplace Pro open interface delivers tremendous cost savings to Siemens customers by generating the fastest route from data load to optimized machine program generation. Siemens customers will enjoy reduced NPI cycle time, increased shop floor productivity, and quicker machine programming and set-up times.”
Valor Computerized Systems, valor.com
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