Electronics Forum | Wed May 05 07:21:37 EDT 2021 | tommy_magyar
Hi there, Anyone is able to recommend bulk to reel or tube to reel services in UK or Ireland area? Any experiences, thoughts, please share. Thank you, Tom
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 09 20:10:28 EDT 1998 | Kathy Palumbo
| Can anybody tell me what to do with IC tubes when we are | done with them? Plastics companies want tons and we only | generate about one hundred pounds a month (guess). We | have been throwing them out... I got the recycling company to drop off
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 10 13:35:00 EDT 2001 | stepheno
I used to work with Chris. (neither of us are there anymore). What is he talking about is putting components into "pockets". The parts would come in, in sticks (tubes) but we wanted them in reels. At first we sent them out to be reeled, but that w
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 15 16:56:25 EST 2003 | Garth
Buy an electronic counter and simply spool your partial reels to an empty reel. It takes my staff a couple of hours to count every component on partial reels (~50 different values) and I have an exact number rather than an estimate.
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 13 12:50:30 EST 2005 | grantp
Hi, We used to use large reels of 0603 passives, but now we have moved to 0402 our supplier only has standard small reels. That's actually less components and we have to change the machine more often. Anyone know any supplier that has the very larg
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 06 18:01:01 EST 2003 | dougt
This is getting deep but here's my input: Here's an idea....... Get a full reel and weigh it on a parts scale down in the stock room. Next weigh an empty reel. Subtract empty from full, and devide this value by the quantity of the full reel. This
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 14 13:15:12 EST 2005 | grantp
Hi, Great, and thanks for the info. I will check it out. It's true lead times are long for large reels, but it's worth it when running. We have much faster machines now, but if we are sopped replacing reels all the time, it cuts into up time in a
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 14 06:16:50 EST 2005 | Rob
Hi Grant, Murata do 0402 chip caps on 50K reels - example: GRM1555C1H101JZ01J 0402, 100pf, NPO/C0G 50V 5% (make sure the final letter is included - the J denotes the reel size - D is standard 10K) Rohm MCR01 series (0402 resistors) come on 6inch, 1
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 03 12:05:55 EST 2003 | H Watson
I was wondering if anyone knows of a tool, like a depth gauge, that is designed to measure the component count of partial SMT component reels. Most reels have a built in indicator gauge, but several do not. A tool would be handy for our physical in
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 06 12:33:14 EST 2003 | gregp
I feel an SMTA vision award coming on. A depth guage sounds like a great idea (especially one designed specifically for that purpose). It should readout "components remaining". But until that product is avaialble, why not just save some of the empt
