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Online Soldering Seminar by Jim Smith

After four sold-out seminars this year, we are excited to announce the fifth one, still led by expert Jim Smith of Electronics Manufacturing Sciences on September 14-16th, 2021.


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June 24, 2021  |  0 Comments

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We will announce our next online soldering seminar presented by Jim Smith soon…

Since 2019, we have partnered with expert Jim Smith of Electronics Manufacturing Sciences to host soldering seminars. Hold on until we announce the next one. In the meantime, you can check the topics covered during the class below.

You will learn:

  • That soldering is mostly about chemistry
  • 7 easy steps that guarantee perfect soldering
  • The workmanship that all customers expect
  • Why most of what you’ve been told about soldering is wrong
  • A simple technique for ensuring that components never get much above the melting temperature of solder (most component failures are caused by overheating components)
  • Why cosmetically “perfect” connections may not be reliable
  • Why your company soldering techniques guarantee failure
  • How to make a $90 soldering iron perform like an $800 iron
  • Why “soldering” tin-plated parts is not actually soldering
  • A simple, easy way to work with ground planes
  • The fast, simple way to solder fine-pitch surface mount components
  • How to replace any component — without damaging the PCB (and without any special equipment)
  • The secret to easy lead-free soldering
  • Why you can’t inspect-in reliability
  • Why flux-cored solder isn’t suited to soldering
  • Why the greatest challenges of the lead-free world have almost nothing to do with the solder alloy
  • To never trust any lessons from the Internet
  • The “industry standards” that are 100% wrong
  • How to pick a true “no clean” flux (and avoid the false claims of flux manufacturers)
  • And much, much more on how to achieve perfect soldering

 

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