Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 20 17:25:02 EDT 2003 | Dean
Coincidence? I just finished a glass calibration this morning on a P&P machine. Excellent tool for precision calibration. Takes the guess work out of the process. I would disagree with Cal's assessment. His calibration methods may work to suit h
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 21 08:47:34 EDT 2003 | caldon
Stan- One of our buildings (not our SMT line or components) Has Great Aircondition but can not regulate the humidity. The building is cool but Wet (No need to lick envelopes as they are already stuck together) from humidity. We went out and found th
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 27 09:45:22 EDT 2003 | caldon
My initial thought (Quick and not to in depth)made me think of the solder joint integrity. I would fear solder contamination if the metal making up the plating would leach (or its elements) into the solder joint. I strongly suggest if you were to go
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 03 11:29:09 EDT 2003 | caldon
I think Equipment wise things have changed little. Xray and Endo scopes have seen usefulness with in industry and if you want to add Laser soldering...Well that is some of the new Capital Equipment. Some areas that will grow over the course of some
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 26 14:09:07 EDT 2003 | caldon
Steve- I can not say for the others but...as for Chrys Shea (a very good friend of mine) still is around. If you had not known She was Speedlines global account manager for Motorola and traveled 95% of the time. She now is at Alpha doing well. She al
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 26 17:18:29 EDT 2003 | slthomas
See, I knew listing names was a mistake. Up comes someone you should have listed and you feel like a putz. :( Thanks Cal. It's not so much that I need to contact anyone. Just wondering where everyone went, mostly, but wanting to publicly thank som
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 01 10:20:48 EDT 2003 | caldon
www.smtmag.com has Step-by-step articles written by OEMS...Just type in Step-by-step into the search engine on the website...sit back and enjoy the links. Also, http://www.smtinfocus.com has a brief snip-it as well. You may want to do a search for
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 07 08:59:33 EDT 2003 | caldon
Will Philadelphia Work? My SMTA colleagues and I are putting together a Q/A. We will be having a panel discussion on Lead free on Oct 29. The panel is made up of industry leaders. Aim Solder- David Suraski, Cookson/Alpha/Electronic Assembly Materials
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 27 08:28:57 EST 2003 | caldon
Ming- You are correct ACI does have training...and aslo they will be working with the local SMTA for a lead free day on Nov 20th I think. Please contact Jeff Stong at jstong@aciusa.org. They alao have a free session on Nov 4th where Kester and Metcal
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 26 10:46:45 EST 2003 | caldon
For a general rough rule of thumb I use Practical Components for programming our machines. Practical has a nice layout of most Tape and Reel components and sizes. We use this mostly for tape/ feeder allocation. But for QC, Specs, and Other Stuff we
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