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Steve Cook

Director of Product Technology
Techspray

Steve Cook is the Director of Product Technology at Techspray, a division of Illinois Tool Works (ITW) and a leading manufacturer of chemical products for the electronics industry.

Steve Cook has submitted responses to the following questions.

Devices for Soldering Iron Tip Cleaning
Soldering tips are often cleaned with tip cleaner or tinner. The majority of these cleaners are a semisolid mixture of ...

Uneven Conformal Coating
Is the same batch of conformal coating working on other boards? I not the product is faulty. If yes then ...

Circuit Board Exposed to Rain
I would say that your board is susceptible to early failure. Even thought the board was dried after exposure there ...

Exposed Leads on Conformally Coated Boards
I would recommend that you recoat the leads. When clipping the leads you could have damaged the conformal coating thereby ...

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