Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 28 11:15:20 EST 2006 | billyd
In my last life we had pretty good luck with the Grid-lok system. Just not very good for extremely large boards, or very thin ones. (Tends to push thin ones up and bend them before the table rises. **On DEK printers, mind you) Form-flex was a nightma
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 28 14:49:48 EST 2006 | vdizzle
Yep Grid-Lok sucks for thin boards. We have it set up in 4 Dek Horizon 01s. Grid-Lok is actually strong enough to snap really thin boards. Other than that, the system has been great, especially if you have to do 10-12 changeovers per line per shif
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 28 16:45:23 EST 2006 | charlie
Why don't you try it for yourself. It won't cost you anything in most cases. Anyone with a negative impression about the product may want to contact Grid-lok (support@grid-lok.com or sales@grid-lok.com) for applications or tech support to be sure th
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 16 09:37:11 EST 2006 | mgillespie
hi, > > we tried to introduce form-flex a few > years back and it caused more problems than it > fixed. > > Switched back to pins and no > problems. > > It might have improved since but I > would be reluctant to get them again unless I was >
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 28 11:07:41 EST 2006 | Chunks
Gel Flex works for Dek, just a slight modificaion. Works 100% better than any Grid type of system. We had missprints from Grid Lok and Form Flex - about every 5th or 6th board. Until we modified the Gels, we would take the time and some peelable s
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 16 11:09:35 EST 2006 | Rich Paulson
I tried this as a demo, sweat like a pig putting this in but my employer didnt like it.
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 28 12:34:12 EST 2006 | pr
Gel flex is crap! If you put enough in to actually support the board, it bows. Apparently MPM knows this because they include hard pins with the set (kinda defeats the purpose huh)! I trialed the grid-lok and it worked fine and operators loved it. Th
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 28 13:43:10 EST 2006 | Brick
JNJ made a nice tooling plate for MPM Hi-E series. Its intent was to replace MPM's "Universal Nest" with an alpha-numeric grid type system. I looked on their website, and they don't make it anymore. Worked great as long as you documented your setu
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 15 19:34:05 EST 2006 | Sang Jun Kim
Ran across this at APEX Show in California, seems like it has good potintial for supporting PCB Boards good. We are assigned project to find solution to support PCB. Anybody have exerpeince with this?
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 16 03:43:54 EST 2006 | aj
hi, we tried to introduce form-flex a few years back and it caused more problems than it fixed. Switched back to pins and no problems. It might have improved since but I would be reluctant to get them again unless I was given a 6 month trial!! aj