Questions tagged [glue]
A substance used bind two surfaces together.
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Do I need to glue connectors to my debug board, so they don't come off?
I designed a debug card for the Virtex 7 FPGA VC707 Evaluation Kit
My card has two large connectors Vita 57.1 (FMC-HPC). Each with 400 BGA pads.
I was wondering, if I shoulod use any glue to keep the ...
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Is this iPad screen flex cable glued onto the contacts?
While trying to change the LCD driver PCB of an iPad screen, I noticed that the flex cables coming from the display are not soldered but glued onto the PCB.
The flex cable on the right was cut from ...
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Should I glue BGA chips in the corners before soldering them with hot air?
I have often see ball grid array (BGA) chips, mostly those from CPUs or GPUs, being glued around in the corners with some red glue or to the perimeter with a translucent one.
Having to manually solder ...
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Which glue isn't detrimental to laptop electronics
Over time, I lost all four rubber feet that were under my laptop (Asus UX530U) and I want to replace them. The original ones used to stick to the laptop by having a little rubber pin plugged into the ...
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How to prevent calculator LCD zebra strip from failing
Calculator after some time gets problems on the LCD, some digits are not showing. That's due to loose (failing) zebra connectors.
Why do they fail, if they are melted in place? What can I do to ...
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Hot glue for circuit boards
Is it a good idea/safe for circuit board components to be submerged in hot glue, in order to essentially "weatherproof" them to a certain degree? I don't believe the components will have the ...
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Securing wire to board connectors with glue
I'm trying to secure wire to board connectors and crimps with glue to withstand vibrations and shocks. I came across the following cases in commercially available devices. Please help me identify ...
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Temporarily mount SMD 2x5 header for programming
I can't mount the 2x5 header permanently on the PCB, so need a way to temporarily mount it to the solder pad the PCB already has for this 2x5 header. Soldering it would create a mess and is not a ...
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Drill through PCB or just use glue to mount component?
For a one-off hobby project I want to add a potentiometer to an existing two-sided PCB. There is an unpopulated zone (as far as I can tell) on the PCB that looks ideal, but I'd have to drill mounting ...
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Dissolvable glue for glass to PCB adhesion
I am working on a project where I have designed a MEMS sensor on a glass (quartz) wafer. I also made a PCB where the glass sensor chip is to be glued to the surface of the PCB for testing purposes. ...
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Potentiometer contact surface between carbon track and solder pin lost its conductivity
I have a 10k stereo slide potentiometer with the carbon tracks pretty much intact but one of the short 'traces' that connect the ends of tracks to the solder pins seems to have somehow deteriorated ...
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Superglue on plug
I was fixing a junky device whose charging cable fell off, And when I superglued it back on, I accidentally got some inside the connecting area (?) and it will no longer charge. What’s the best way to ...
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Strengthening micro USB connector
The connector blows its solder when inserting the cable. It is SMD type.
Can I back it up with a special glue? What do you recommend?
I saw red little balls on a Xilinx board are these glue?
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What is this thermal adhesive? (heat transfer compound)
Well generally I I encounter this thermal adhesive. for example in inverter (brand: allen bradley). But it is different from I've seen before. It is very solid and generally using at very strange ...
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Do I glue the screw when mounting the PCB to enclosure or not?
Well, this is a handheld device we are developing at our firm. We bought the enclosure from a chinese man. in AliExpress. It's made out of ABS. The device is going to be used in an industrial site. ...
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