Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 30 13:15:31 EST 2006 | jdengler
This will depend on the feeder design. Some feeders cause a loss of several components when removing a reel from a feeder. If yours do not, the operator should be able to leave enough tape and mylar cover tape for this reel to be put back onto a fe
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 04 10:17:09 EDT 1998 | Eric Jenkins
| | Looking for vendors of splicing tape for 8,12 and 16mm tape and reel. | | Any net sources? | If you can use carrier (cover) tapes go see "Igmar Grewar 16:04:32 5/28/98" on SMTNet. Dave F It is very difficult to splice carrier tape, we have tried
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 04 10:00:11 EDT 1998 | Dave F
| Looking for vendors of splicing tape for 8,12 and 16mm tape and reel. | Any net sources? If you can use carrier (cover) tapes go see "Igmar Grewar 16:04:32 5/28/98" on SMTNet. Dave F
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 30 12:48:54 EST 2006 | krc
Pardon my ignorance on this subject but I gotta ask... When the SMT guys load partial reels, I'm told that they have to waste a few components in the process. It seemed obvious to me that there should be a kind of tape that can be added to the end
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 30 13:15:17 EST 2006 | gregp
Maybe the issue is how the feeders are being unloaded. The operators should leave enough covertape to reload the reel onto a feeder without component waste. If the issue is some parts are exposed in the feeder then you will most likely loose those p
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 21 04:20:40 EDT 2005 | Rob
Hi Greg, Remember, splicing isn't just for when components run out - it's also for when you have to pull a part reel from stock, swap it across machines with different feeders, or when the tape snaps. Cheers, Rob.
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 31 14:59:05 EST 2006 | samir
KRC, Let me guess. You're in the materials organanization at your company and you're judged by such metrics as "inventory accuracy" and "# of turns", and you're thinking that those sacrifial chip components are what causes your inventory accuracy to
Electronics Forum | Fri May 20 09:13:58 EDT 2011 | ck_the_flip
We have issues with the Philipps Luxeon Rebel LED where the part sticks to the cover tape during advancement. This causes the part to get flopped around in the pocket or the component gets dropped and damaged when the feeder advances. Has anyone ex
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 23 08:16:57 EDT 2005 | gregp
Base, You are absolutely correct. This is what I intend to do. In fact, our feeders at one time had reel hangers that would allow for reel removal and thus splicing. Sometimes it is frustrating when people are set in their ways and won't consider
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 31 16:06:58 EST 2006 | GS
I think this can be of help when dialing with setting up feeders for product prototyping, where often we have to dial with a short quantity of components (often pieces of carrier tape w/o tape and cover leader) just enough to run (if lucky) those few
