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We often use the Kapton for masking when we want the tape to cause
de-wetting. Like when using UV40 UV cure, the dewetting makes it easier to
demask. If you cure the UV material over the green tape, it's damn near
impossible to remove.

Lloyd Duso
Plant Manager
Diamond-MT
(814) 535-3505
www.Diamond-mt.com

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 7:08 PM, Yuan-chia Joyce Koo <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> dupont Kapton  is not everybody cup of tea.  many "Kapton" equivalent with
> silicone or acrylic adhesive leave residue on the gold wire bonding pad,
> but not Dupont Kapton... if you can find true Dupont, stay with them.
> (from what I heard, they only sell the roll of kapton tape now, but let 3rd
> party put on what ever the adhesive.... so your Dupont may have different
> adhesive... (still have half roll of Kapton... true one as collection...
> thick, enough to patch up stacking issue to prevent short...).
> good old days.
>  jk
>
> On Jun 19, 2017, at 5:42 PM, Wayne Thayer wrote:
>
> I believe that the right silicone based PSA would work fine. No one is
>> more concerned about contamination than plating shops. "Plater's tape" is a
>> mylar carrier with silicone adhesive. It's used in PCB fabs all of the
>> time. But I guess the silicone is in a highly stabilized form that doesn't
>> leach oil like the masking dots Phil is mentioning below. I've used DuPont
>> Kapton tape with silicone adhesive, and I've never had an oil leaching
>> problem. Not good stuff for masking because the polyimide material itself
>> causes the paint to bead up.
>>
>> When I opened an R&D board fab lab, I chased out all silicone based
>> compounds. So I learned about how bad the acrylic PSAs are: Those tapes
>> drop little globs of acrylic PSA EVERYWHERE. True, they don't cause
>> de-wetting like silicone has the potential to do, but they block plating
>> where they've decided to stick anyway. If you want a real nightmare try
>> plastering those danged "Post-It" notes on everything: the weakening done
>> to allow them to be easily re-positioned frees up the acrylic globs.
>>
>> Anyway, this is a divergence because for relatively crude masking
>> applications on surfaces that don't have to be perfectly clean, standard
>> painter's materials are fine if you can address the static.
>>
>> Wayne
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Craig Sullivan
>> Sent: Monday, June 19, 2017 1:58 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: [TN] Conformal coat tape of acrylic
>>
>> Phil,
>>
>> Yes, I agree. I am not even looking at anything with a silicone adhesive.
>> I've been extremely cautions not to introduce silicone into our process
>> over the years. I've even gone as far as telling the tape slitters not to
>> use the silicone solution on their blades when slitting our orders.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nutting, Phil
>> Sent: Monday, June 19, 2017 4:26 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: [TN] Conformal coat tape of acrylic
>>
>> Craig,
>>
>> We use Konform AR and at some point our acrylic adhesive masking dots
>> were discontinued and replaced with a silicone based adhesive.  The
>> silicone worked, however I saw an odd fish eye pattern and blooming under
>> UV light around the dots.  You could watch the blooming as it cured.
>>
>> My 2 cents is to test the new mask materials with your coating and watch
>> under UV light.
>>
>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Craig Sullivan
>> Sent: Monday, June 19, 2017 1:31 PM
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>> Subject: Re: [TN] Conformal coat tape of acrylic
>>
>> Thank you. I’ve requested samples of those recommended. Much to my
>> surprise, I also found some on Humiseal’s website so I asked for samples of
>> that as well.
>>
>>
>>
>> Steve: Yes, we go through rolls of that as well. But we have a couple of
>> new assemblies where it’s giving us issues for some reason. I first thought
>> it was cleanliness, then possibly just a bad lot of tape, but I’ve
>> exhausted those conditions.
>>
>>
>>
>> Craig Sullivan
>>
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>> From: lduso - Diamond-MT.com [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> Sent: Monday, June 19, 2017 12:29 PM
>> To: TechNet E-Mail Forum; Craig Sullivan
>> Subject: Re: [TN] Conformal coat tape of acrylic
>>
>>
>>
>> 3m Green Tape 233+. The most common size we use is the 3/4", p/n 26334.
>> Slightly stronger adhesion than the blue. We still stock the blue for
>> masking delicate components, like radial resistors, specifically because it
>> has low adhesion and there is less chance of damaging the components on
>> demask.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Lloyd Duso
>>
>> Plant Manager
>>
>> Diamond-MT
>> (814) 535-3505
>>
>> www.Diamond-mt.com
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 11:59 AM, Craig Sullivan <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> What masking tape is everyone using for Type AR coatings?
>>
>>
>>
>> Long story short:
>>
>> We used to use the St. Gobain M797 which was also known as Humiseal's
>> HT-500. Due to numerous manufacturer issues, we stopped using it.
>>
>> One of our customers spec'd in the blue 3m painter's tape and we have
>> been using it successfully for a while.
>>
>> We have some new assemblies where the 3m adhesion is terrible and am now
>> back onto looking for a new tape, similar to what we all went through some
>> 8 years ago.
>>
>>
>>
>> Craig Sullivan
>>
>> Manufacturing Engineer
>>
>> IT Administrator
>>
>> Phone:  (607) 266-0480 x115
>>
>> Fax:  (607) 266-0482
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