Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 11 12:45:23 EDT 2003 | jonfox
Assembleon Topaz (many different flavors) or you can pick up an almost new Universal GSM pretty cheap these days. Are you looking for "new" equipment only? What are your requirements and/or features you are looking at/for? Another good machine if
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 15 15:23:10 EDT 2003 | davem
I would agree with the advice given by previous poster's. "Buyer Beware" is the rule of the day. Especially when dealing with 3rd. party brokers. Keep an eye out for some of the teir 1 EMS corp's auctions. You can pick up some excellent deals on we
Electronics Forum | Tue May 27 20:03:18 EDT 2008 | mobytahoe
Insane, inane and a waste of everyone's time. Buy a soldering iron at Target and have it. A cheap machine cannot do what you plan. If it could, China would already be selling them.' Get a clue.
Electronics Forum | Thu May 15 23:13:26 EDT 2008 | sarason
The Essemtec has a very cheap to manufacture feeder which you could adapt, or try one of the feeders that remove the tape by "ploughing" it off. Can't recall the brand right now. They are well made, but very cheap to make. The laser gets you speed. T
Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 12 19:48:47 EDT 2010 | bootstrap
I like what you're doing. 20 years ago anyone, hobbyists and tiny garage-shop companies could create electronics devices just as sophisticated and cool as big corporations. Today, SMT has largely trashed the creativity (and competition) that existe
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 07 00:45:39 EDT 2014 | comatose
If you study how the process is done now, it isn't that different from what you describe. Instead of glue, we use solder paste, and instead of spraying it we screen print it. But not that different. For feeding boards we use conveyors instead of rubb
Electronics Forum | Sun Aug 31 16:16:37 EDT 2014 | spoiltforchoice
Andres, I think if you were to understand the process a little better you would realise the many many problems you would encounter building even very simple things using your method. Even 30 minutes watching Youtube videos of current machines might h
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 10 23:06:36 EDT 2014 | andrespena
Sorry 10 days passed before I replied. This happened and that happened and I completely forgot about this forum. But here's my explanation: 1. How to get parts on the board? This is a very good point, and I totally understand why you believe I hav
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 15 21:20:18 EDT 2024 | compit
Check out Yamaha - also old. A large number of parts (the same machines under the Assembleon, Philips brand), cheap feeders, many parts suppliers. Models from 2 to 16 heads, e.g. Emerald-X can accommodate 84 INDEPENDENT 8 mm feeders.
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 30 10:42:40 EDT 2021 | oxygensmd
I have a customer who ask close to prototyping jobs with low volume and high-mix components. A regular job have around 5-30 pieces board but have high quantity and many type of components. All the time over 1000 pieces of parts on board from 250-350
