Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 04 23:44:07 EDT 1999 | Dean
| | Has anyone had a problem with the trailer tape length being too short and causing placement machine to stop for parts exhaust (SMT parts)? I realize the EIA spec. is set for this length but would like to know what issues you have had. Thanks |
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 30 13:09:08 EST 2006 | bvdb
The cover tape that seals the parts into the reels on our feeders always uncovers a few parts (up to ten 0805 parts) before the part can be picked. So removing a partial reel always results in the loss of a few parts. Putting a partial reel back on
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 | Wed Apr 12 19:04:46 EDT 2006 | ted nguyen
Don't know if this applies to you, but here's my 2 cents. We just pick up what parts from that reel that falls off with mylar take and tape it right to the reel. That way, you can use it for rework or whenever you need spare parts. As for the tear do
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 22 08:06:13 EDT 2005 | gregp
Hello Rob, We have reel hangers on our feeders as opposed to "buckets". The reels cannot be removed while the feeder is mounted to the machine. Thus splicing is not currently an option. As mentioned above, we felt that it is easier to remove the f
Electronics Forum | Tue May 09 18:41:54 EDT 2006 | SMT_CNC
It is a very simple practice to leave a leader when breaking down a setup. This way the next time you're going to use the reel there is about a foot of cover tape to use. Seems to work in our SMT production area. Max.
Electronics Forum | Thu May 09 08:05:23 EDT 2024 | carl_p
Use off cuts from the reels & just buy splices. It's how i've done prototype jobs before switching away from cut tape & part reels etc. Although if this is a forever ending cycle it can be very painful.
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 30 13:02:45 EST 2006 | krc
We're not buying stips, they're whole reels at first. But because of things like discrete order sizes, or proto builds, or otherwise low-volume production, we're stuck with leftovers.
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 19 06:56:54 EDT 2006 | QTEK Manufacturing Ltd. www.qtek.com
QTEK Manufacturing Ltd. provide a solution to the above problem, QTEK Cover Tape Extender adds an extra 380mm to cover the tape of component reels. It saves components being wasted or discard when strating a new tape through a feeder, and enables the
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
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