June 2016

June 2016 

Dear Electronics Colleague:

We recently visited the Castillo de San Marcos in St Augustine. It is the oldest masonry fort in the continental United States in one of the oldest cities in America. It was founded by Spain and then to England and back to Spain again over time.

Best regards,

Bob Wettermann

President, BEST Inc.

Register Now!

We have two scheduled CIT courses at our Auburn Hills facility in Michigan that are coming up and filling quickly! The following courses are scheduled:

IPC-A-610 CIT - July 12 - 15

IPC 7711/21 CIT - July 18 - 22

If you are interested in registering, please contact Alex Conley (aconley@solder.net) at 847-797-9250.

Laser Ablation

BEST's laser ablation process does not burn or melt coatings, but instead removes them from substrates by breaking the molecular bonds of the coating material. Another distinguishing capability of this process is the removal of coatings from sites plated with soft metals, such as gold and tin/lead. BEST is able to remove coatings using a variety of guided laser sources while leaving the underlying plated metals intact and without heat effects ("orange-peeling"). 

Contact Laura Ripoli (lripoli@solder.net) at 847-797-9250 to learn more about our Laser Ablation services! 

Product Highlight - 

Mixed Tech Kit

BEST training kits feature REAL circuit boards that represent actual soldering conditions. These training kits feature thick multilayer boards which are more representative of the thermal conditions of "real" circuit boards. Parts on this board include both Throughhole, as well as SMT parts making it a "mixed technology" training board. This board features immersion gold over an electroless nickel finish. To order, call Chris Edwards (cedwards@solder.net) at 847-797-9250 or visit our online store.