Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 19 21:04:21 EDT 1998 | Dennis O'Donnell
| | I am looking for a quickly obtainable procedure on the repair of SMT boards. I am particularly interested in discrete components, such as | | capacitors and resistors. | | I need to know the importance of pre-heating the board and components. Wh
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 18 13:56:39 EDT 1998 | No Friend Of Alpha
So my salesman says to me that we could return our unneeded Al frames from our MPM printer to Alphametals in CA for credit to be applied toward a future sale. Sonded good. So I boxed up all the damn frames (44) and shipped them off to Goofyland. Now
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 13 21:58:14 EDT 1998 | Alpha Guy
When things go wrong (see below) it can usually be attributed to a communication problem. This is exactly the issue with this case. A meeting has been held and corrections have been made with no hard feelings. However, another call rather than a
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 19 02:02:01 EDT 1998 | Scott McKee
| I am involved in the purchasing decision (Technical side) of which placement machine to buy. One of the criteria we need to specify is how many feeders, and what sizes. I have a provitional parts list of a job that we are most likly going to build.
Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 13 09:36:46 EDT 1998 | RNLM
| Is cost an issue? I evaluated Siemens Siplace about a year ago and the price per placement was twice what Phillips Machinery has to offer. We too are a high mix/low PCb count shop. Also, Siemens has many hidden costs and the references I talked
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 10 09:27:36 EDT 1998 | Steve Gregory
| We're running into problems with board damage (broken traces, solder shorts) due to pliers and other bizarre tools being used for depanelization. I need some sort of fixture for this. A delrin plate with a slot cut to the correct depth and width mi
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 08 21:01:23 EDT 1998 | Dave F
| In our continued search for another flex machine, we reconsidered Philips | Emerald (low Vol/high mix Mfg). We already have a CSM so it makes a little sense. Then the salesman started talking about the Topaz. The Topaz supposedly is "practically th
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 18 10:57:28 EDT 1998 | Mike Moninger
| We offer an upgrade service for notebooks with 486 SX/DX CPUs up to 586-133 MHz using the AMD 5x86-133 MHz CPU in the PQFP package. We are pretty succesful with this service and until today we did more than 1000 notebook upgrades this way. | Now,
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 08 20:03:07 EDT 1998 | Dave F
| Chiakl | Ion Chromatography has been perfectly described by Dave, but here are a couple of extra considerations: | Ion Chromatography will tell you precisely what is present on the surface of your board/assembly but it will not tell you whether it
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 05 15:06:26 EDT 1998 | Dave F
| I have just been assigned to look into the ionic chromotograhy test on our PCBA but I have zero knowledge. Could anyone help to explain what is this test about? Is it | a) a destructive test? | b) What is the measurement unit of this test? | c) Wh
