Industrial soldering Handbook

[salvodi89]

Hello Everyone,
I'm looking for a good handbook for soldering and PCB assembly in industry.
I'm interested in particular in hand soldering/reworking, solder inspection.

Does anyone had experience with that? Is there any good book as reference?

Thanks!

[robgambrill]

This might be a start. NASA has this guide....

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/codeq/doctree/canceled/NS87393-Ch5.pdf

It is no longer in effect, but it shows requirements for soldered electrical connections as formally required in NASA equipment. From the foreward...

This Standard provides a baseline for NASA project offices to use when preparing or evaluating
process procedures for the manufacture of mission hardware or mission critical ground support
equipment.

[128er]

And here is some more NASA stuff. Not only about soldering techniques:

http://workmanship.nasa.gov/lib/insp/2%20books/frameset.html

[salvodi89]

Thank you!
Both the links you provided are really amazing.
That's the kind of things you expect from nasa... but... how did you find these things?

[pickle9000]

Mr. Scott (James Doohan) syndrome. 

[salvodi89]

I found these book:

• Soldering Handbook For Printed Circuits and Surface Mounting by Howard H. Manko
• SMT Soldering Handbook by Rudolf Strauss

Did anyone had read one of these books?
What do you think?

[ivaylo]

There is this http://www.elektor.com/mastering-surface-mount-technology by a forum member here...

[BradC]

This might be a start. NASA has this guide....

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/codeq/doctree/canceled/NS87393-Ch5.pdf

It is no longer in effect, but it shows requirements for soldered electrical connections as formally required in NASA equipment. From the foreward...

Wow, that takes me back. We did a unit to those standards back when I was at TAFE 20 years ago. I still remember the little lead formers and clippers required to ensure the lead was appropriately trimmed prior to soldering so as to not leave any raw copper exposed. That course did my soldering quite a bit of good actually as it taught you the basics of heat transfer and how to make the most appropriate joint in the minimum of time to limit heat input.