Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 25 10:29:32 EDT 2003 | caldon
Hey Mike- We ran into the same thing when we purchased a Large CanadianManufacturers repair business. We were creative and first used an ESD bag cut open (Simulate the paper idea) then we used a 3M parts bin and would tip it on its corner to funnel t
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 11 14:26:11 EST 2023 | proy
Looking for ideas/conversation on how people handle short strips or leftover SMT parts in inventory We do a lot of high mix low volume jobs we often have strips or even parts in bags which we need to keep and inventory. Presently the non reels are
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 31 02:59:18 EST 2006 | jgarver1
You also should check to make sure you have blow off at the placing station set properly. I have seen machines with the flow control valve shut completely off not release parts properly. The parts end up in the scrap bin and the machine thinks they
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 24 17:52:39 EDT 2003 | russ
i don't know of anything on the market nut you may just want to draw one up and have it built either externally or even internaly. I picture a small square of ESD material with a lip around it with a small opening in one corner. Do you receive any I
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 16 15:07:00 EDT 2004 | jsmith01
I ran some test samples with a water soluble past (Amatech ws488). I also tried hand soldering using an Alpha ws375 wave soldering flux and some old fashioned RMA. The results are pretty much the same. Some of the joints look a better that others b
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 25 18:48:57 EDT 2003 | russ
How about using one of those ESD sprays that apply a dissipative coating? Tech Spray has one that is supposed to be permanent. It is called LICRON. Russ
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 24 17:41:29 EDT 2003 | MikeF
I'm looking for an esd safe tray, something like what pharmacists use, that we can use to count out loose parts. Has anyone seen something like that? We have a lot of part values in our stock room that have maybe 100 or so loose parts in a bag. The
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 25 18:04:49 EDT 2003 | MikeF
It looks like we'll have to go the conductive process tray route. I looked through web sites for Brick Container and several other esd suppliers and did not find anything that would work. I saw the tray you mentioned in my Techni-tool catalog, but wa
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 01 16:46:50 EDT 1998 | Dave F
We are trying to eliminate/minimize the baking process for high lead-count ICs. We would like to reseal packages containing these parts to minimize exposure to humidity. Anyone have or know of a way to reseal or vacuum pack parts? Any suggested eq
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 28 23:45:23 EDT 1999 | DGrenier
JC: Seen this before, many times. We fixed our problems at the co I work for by giving a packaging specification to our purchasing dept. Took some work but the payoff was pretty big. This document includes such things as orientation,pitch,tape type
