Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 14 14:26:13 EST 2006 | Chunks
Well, you don't want your paste to spoil! It'll give it a bad aftertaste. Actually, we refrig our paste mainly cause our stock room gets rather on the toasty side. Jars left un-friged will cause the metals to sink and leave a puddle of flux on top
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 15 21:18:03 EST 2006 | Spilly McNugglets
It's cumbersome. Also if it catches a part partially after initial set-up, you'll get missprints. We had one and caused about 15% missprints. Once removed and hard pin in place, no missprints. Defeats vacuum board hold down too, from all of it's
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 23 09:19:38 EST 2006 | Bruce
for years we have all delt with the choices of endless products to use as flooring to create an ESD safe area for electronics assembly, I have spoke with "ESD TECH's" in the past that have told me a "clean / Bare concreate floor" provides as much di
Electronics Forum | Sun Feb 26 21:48:28 EST 2006 | Mike Konrad
Hi GS, Just a clarification� No-clean does NOT equal no ions. It equals less ions (at best). Automatic R.O.S.E (Resistivity Of Solvent Extract) testers are commonly used to detect ionic contamination from no-clean applications. Your comment rega
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 28 16:35:29 EST 2006 | muse95
Did you verify that the new colour of soldermask was RoHS compliant before you switched? I've heard that many aren't, and that switching colours can sometimes mean moving from one that was compliant to one that is not. We internally decided not to
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 02 05:07:51 EST 2006 | pavel
We have bought an old zevatech 730 in Bosch auction (hello MikeZIG). There seems to be something wrong with the X axis servo, the machine is vibrating when the head is moving fast (in fact the machine is dancing, in the race with washing machine it w
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 13 08:03:57 EST 2006 | paulinct
Hi Everyone, I searched and found some old comments about the Novastar machines. I was wondering if anyone has purchased a newer one and used it for Lead Free? If so what do you think? We currently run 2 Technical Device machines (leaded) and hav
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 24 15:40:23 EST 2006 | Gilligan
Novemer 13, 2001, minutes from the JG-PP Lead-Free Solder project: http://www.jgpp.com/projects/lead_free_soldering/minutes/01novminutes.pdf It seems to me, that although everything was discussed before hand, it wound up being the "Let's do it and
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 29 09:40:26 EST 2006 | kevslatvin
Thanks for the replies.With which ever machine we decide on the feeders with the most commonly used parts will stay on the machine. Also parts used on other jobs but not needed for the current one will be able to stay as well. The problem well run in
Electronics Forum | Tue May 09 10:53:36 EDT 2006 | Tapesplice.com
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