Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 21 14:05:19 EDT 2005 | cyber_wolf
Dave, I think I worded my post poorly. I am not sure if "tuning fork type" is the correct terminology. The instrument I am looking for usually has a hand held unit connected to a device that resembles a small tuning fork. As a matter of fact, I thi
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 15 22:36:24 EDT 2005 | Ken
1. How did your customers preious supplier deal with this problem? 2. Why did they not alert you these sepcial needs during the quoting process? If they have special needs then relegate the parts to hand-stuff. Don't forget to adjust your price
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 17 05:35:00 EDT 2005 | Rob
Hi Harrit, We are processing SMT eleco's normally - up to around 8mm in height, the larger sizes can still be avoided and are through hole as the cost of them outweigh the benefit of surface mounting them (although we did get good results on test fo
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 13 10:33:57 EST 2006 | fredericksr
Hello, I am automating a process on our floor from wire solder hand application to dispensed paste and reflow. The process involves "lidding" a shielding lid around our assemblies for microwave quieting. The result is non-hermetic. For cosmet
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 09 12:51:52 EDT 2006 | flipit
You can not solder to 30 micro inches of gold over nickel and certainly not 80 microns. You can not with tin lead solder or SAC305 anyway. The upper limit is between 6 and 10 micro inches of gold. This is what ENIG plates to. If you solder to gre
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 20 10:29:14 EDT 2006 | Chunks
I was afraid so. Hand soldering wires in general is not difficult, but with your constraint of the space restriction it does make fairly hard to do. I am assuming you have a 2 sided board and stranded copper wire. So once solder starts to flow, th
Electronics Forum | Sat Jul 08 14:34:27 EDT 2006 | grantp
Hi, I would go MYDATA rather than an "entry level" machine. The MYDATA low cost second hand units run the same software as their top of the line units, as well as taking the same feeders, so if you want to go faster and upgrade to a faster model, y
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 13 00:45:15 EDT 2006 | donb
Haha, I have so many of these stories... where to start? My favourite was a few years back, we had a new mechanical engineer fresh out of university. As a part of his new role, he was purchasing tools & equipment for the maintenance workshop. After
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 09 08:46:48 EDT 2006 | pavel_murtishev
Good afternoon, Take my word, bent THT leads will surely cause problems with manual/automatic component insertion, and surely will create voids in solder joints. As a rule, PIH components are placed by hand and good PIH THT manual component placemen
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 11 10:13:26 EDT 2007 | hussman
I would also "nice to have" because of your process. Inspecting solder paste from a 2D point of view manually would not assure you quality if the paste is 75% off pad. Plus hand placing onto solder paste causes it's own set of problems which will c
