Review of OSHStencil stainless steel stencil - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: blueskull
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 12, 2016, 05:18:05 am
content: The picture says everything.The DFN on the left is a 0.5mm pitch one, the BGA in the middle is a 0.5mm pitch one, the 2 BGAs on the right are 0.4mm pitch ones. The majority of passives are 0402.I left white balance on auto, but the true color should be purple (from the PCB fab that we all know).For whatever reason, horizontal 0402/0805 packages look different than vertical ones, and the same thing shows on both stencil and PCB, so I will blame it as another Altium bug.Sorry for the lint. I am running low on Kimwipes, so I used some Kleenex instead.

author: zapta
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 15, 2016, 05:01:33 am
content: Their pricing is excellent for small boards, $1.28 per square inch for the the stainless steel (4 mil). It's a relatively new service.

author: OSHStencils
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: August 18, 2016, 11:46:34 pm
content: Thank you for sharing an excellent picture of our product.To clarify however, we are not a new serviceWe've been around 3 years, but the Stainless Steel offering is new as of the end of June. We are utilizing the best cutting equipment on the market today, with the highest quality stencil metal on the market as well. We spared no expense on this product and not all stainless steel stencils are created equal, we've had some stellar reviews from our clients that have compared us to some of the China offerings as well as some of the large stencil houses and they love the product.We do utilize the same linear pricing model as before, so as the stencil gets bigger the price goes down, similar to our Polyimide offering. We also recently added Solder Paste to our list of products to move us closer to your one-stop shop at friendly price points.We are also providing framed stencils for some of our fab/assembly house customers, and are exploring if it makes sense to offer on our website as well in the near future. So far the demand for our frameless offering has been enough to keep us busy.Thanks again for the great support, the community is what inspires us to keep expanding and finding creative ways to bring inexpensive solutions to the public, and maintain our sub 24 hour turn around time and we've got some more plans in the works. Stay tuned!www.oshstencils.com

author: zapta
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 18, 2016, 11:56:27 pm
content: Hi OshStencils, a feature request if you don't do it yet, please add an option to round the corners of your SS stencils. A small radius of 3-5 mm should do to remove the sharp corners.(haven't ordered SSS from you yet, just the plastic film kind).

author: zapta
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 19, 2016, 12:42:26 am
content: Quote from: blueskull on August 19, 2016, 12:17:39 amGreat. Having custom size SS stencils, round corners, lower prices and faster turn around is definitely better than what I get now from elecrow. I will give them a try.

author: OSHStencils
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: August 19, 2016, 04:58:12 pm
content: As blueskull indicated, our stencils do utilize rounded corners. We actually round all of our film stencils now too, not that it's required, but we like consistency

author: zapta
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 25, 2016, 01:35:01 am
content: Got today very good service from OSH Stencils. The (non metal) stencil I ordered about a week ago got lost in the mail so they offer to send me another one free of charge. Hopefully it will arrive in time for the OshPark PCBs that were shipped today.

author: zapta
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 26, 2016, 05:37:05 am
content: AmpHour had recently an interview with Brent, the proprietor of OshStencils. He knows his stuff.http://www.theamphour.com/320-an-interview-with-brent-of-oshstencils/

author: Alex Eisenhut
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 26, 2016, 06:25:26 am
content: Maybe it's just my sleeplessness, but it looks like there's paste in some vias? Maybe you wiped down the first attempt and some solder balls are in the tented via divots??