Hand Soldering

In today’s world almost all printed circuit boards are assembled using surface mount components. These components are used because in higher volumes the process is automated as the components are picked out by a gantry robot at high speed and placed into solder paste. This solder paste is melted or reflowed thereby establishing the electrical connection between the components and the PCB. In addition, this connection mechanically affixes the component to the PCB to create a reliable interconnection. If there are high voltage connections or connectors around the periphery of the board, the devices need to be attached the PCB using a different process than previously-described. These through-hole parts are soldered by molten solder contacting the inserted parts leads or legs and running up through a plated hole in the PCB. This process is known as a wave or selective soldering. These connectors, high voltage or other through-hole (Figure 1) parts can be formed and placed into the holes ...

If you require professional hand soldering services then make sure your outsourced partner has both the right soldering tools, the right personnel with the right credentials and processes in place in order to perform the work at hand. For professional hand soldering skills make sure your potential outsourcing partner has the right soldering tools. The outsourced service provider should have and be familiar with a wide range of soldering irons and soldering iron tips. For example for hand soldering of RF shields BEST has worked with a major soldering equipment vendor in order to design and test a soldering tip for the complete soldering or dif BEST follows industry best manufacturing practices when it comes to handling your product. We not only teach the J-STD-001 standard for electronics assembly but we follow it when hand soldering your boards. We also follow the IPC-A-610 inspection guidelines for the assembly (yes, we teach that as well). What this means is that we foll...