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Simon Smith

Marketing Manager
Pillarhouse International Ltd

Mr. Smith has been in the electronics industry for over 30 years, the last 21 in the Selective Soldering field. He has progressed from electronics design, through after sales and now marketing.

Simon Smith has submitted responses to the following questions.

Point to Pint Soldering vs Drag Soldering
From your description it sounds like you are hand-soldering rather than using a form of selective soldering method. One thing ...

Mixing Different SAC305 Solders
In theory yes you can mix suppliers, however we have had issues where compliant SAC305 actually had various 'anti-dross' agents ...

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