Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 09 14:50:03 EDT 2008 | bradlanger
We use a FKN pizza cutter and found that even with 5mm clearance and the proper orientation of the part larger ceramic capacitors 1812, 1210 would still stress fracture. We have successfully fixed stress fracture problems by adding routed relief slot
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 14 16:38:00 EST 2018 | cbart
i have seen that happen when the wrong process was utilized! your boards looked like they were v-scored and someone broke them apart, proper method would be to use a scoring separation machine.. pizza cutter. this would prevent this. its not a good i
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 04 08:40:37 EDT 2010 | keiths487
I used to wrench on those all the time! I really > should be more help to you but it was a few years > ago... A few more things to check - clean the > line sensors on the back of the machine. Check > to make sure you don't have a feeder that i
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 01 13:33:01 EDT 2015 | marlyn
Hey there fellow people with SMT > issues... What's the proper procedure for > soldering through-hole headers on the back-side > of the PCB (pins poking out on same side as SMT > parts)? ( Yes - I did the SMT side first and am > now faced with L
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 29 12:28:32 EST 2018 | slthomas
What I'm thinking is that your cutter/former (or whatever the "boot" shaped assembly is called, that provides the dies for cutting and forming parts from the tape) could be worn, dull, bent, etc., and once in a while you get a lead that doesn't enter
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 10 15:19:09 EDT 2004 | davef
Hey Bob, turn DOWN the volume. Waint daff yano!!! On the surface of things, if you�ve been to a dozen board houses that have not been able to properly separate boards, we�d kinda be inclined to think it�s you and not them. [In your defense, we hav
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 18 09:25:27 EST 2004 | remullis
Normally when I run into having to hit the ESC key to step through this is the steps I take. 1. Power machine down and restart. 2. Home machine and watch cutter carefully. Both cutter should acuate and the height motors should run CW and CCW. 3. You
Electronics Forum | Fri May 04 16:19:52 EDT 2018 | solderingpro
meaning its non-eutectic. You would want to stay as close to 350°C as possible or (if a slightly off version of SAC305) target the highest melting point of your chemistry) - assuming your temp controller is properly calibrated that is. Other option
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 17 11:57:25 EDT 1998 | Justin Medernach
| I am looking for information on the amount of stress a component sees during the depaneling process. I am currently specifying a new piece of depaneling equipment and I have not found any studies that quantitatively compare the amount of stress di
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 30 15:28:25 EDT 2007 | gmoritz
I'm posting a diary of the major repair experience that we had this weekend. I'll follow up with a shorter post that sort of summarizes a few things. ------------------------------------------------ The service guys showed up at our facility about
