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Tue, 28 Aug 2001 11:53:02 -0400
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Our supplier for epoxy sheet adhesives has significantly increased
prices, and I'd like to look at alternative sources.

We use this stuff for bonding ladder-style aluminum heatsinks to
PWB's.  The types that we use are either glass cloth or Kapton
film covered with epoxy, total thickness from .004" to .009".  We
cut material on a programmable x-y machine that looks a lot like
a plotter, but with a blade instead of a pen.  Cure is with heat and
pressure, either in a fixture and oven, or with a vacuum bag and
platen press.

We like dry film better than screen printing or dispensing liquid
adhesive because it's a lot less messy, bondline thickness is very
repeatable, material doesn't squeeze out when fixtured, and there
is no smear when aligning the heatsink with the board.

Anyone use Arlon materials for something like this?  Other sources?

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