If you are soldering with paste, a stencil makes life a lot easier. Sure, you can apply paste by hand with a syringe, but a modern PCB might have hundreds or even thousands of pads. Like a lot of ...

This project, sent in by [Henk], goes through a few different ways to make a solder stencil using a vinyl cutter, a CO2 laser, and a fiber laser. The project starts with identifying a method to ...

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 ...

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 ...

EMS companies who produce PCBA’s have been using stencils for decades, to apply solder paste to boards, but this traditional method may one day be a thing of the past. Adam Harsant, Director at ...

Solder paste applied without a stencil, however, can ooze, cause shorts, and end a project in flames. Systems engineer Felix Rusu devised a simple process to make robust soldering stencils from ...

onto a substrate to create an extremely accurate stencil that can be used for solder paste printing of PCBs. “Photo Stencil has pushed innovation to achieve stencils that accommodate high ...