Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 10 12:22:08 EDT 2001 | Kevin
Cal, There are several suppliers of cover tape materials that do not require heat to activate the adhesive. 3M and Advantek are likely the leaders. There are relatively few T&R machines that can handle both heat and non-heat applications - as Chri
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 22 13:07:25 EST 2004 | Richard Y
Try these guys out: http://www.cornetttapingproducts.com/ Tell the owner Chuck I reffered you. He's a great guy and is very reasonable. He even gives me hours in turn times AND that's making the tape and T&R the parts!
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 10 11:43:11 EST 2004 | Bill Aldeen
My name is Bill Aldeen, and I own and operate Nu-Way Electronics, Inc. We provide Tape & Reel packaging service for surface mount and through-hole electronic components. We're in the Chicago area, and we serve all of North America competitively. W
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 | Tue Mar 30 10:43:21 EST 2004 | Robert
I could use some help too. I have a bunch of SMD 4 Pads Inductors from Central Technologies. The dimensions of the part is 11.30x13.9x6.9 . I've called four companies already and none were able to find a carrier for this part. These parts are on plas
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 27 10:00:59 EST 2004 | pjc
www.argosyinc.com/tapereel_new.html http://www.electro-comp.com/ http://www.vtekusa.com/viptaping.htm http://www.vestalelectronics.com/ http://www.reelservice.com/ http://www.matr.com/
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 11 11:49:22 EST 2004 | caldon
www.ox3.com has a great web site. 1) they have a pdf that you can use for $ or 2) they have an online glossary with parts and cost available. Cal
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 03 09:21:53 EST 2004 | davef
We splice no tapes. Search the fine SMTnet Archives for additional discussion.
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 04 08:48:31 EST 2004 | Erv
We tried splicing and found numerous problems with jamming. To make a long story short, as a rule we just don't do it. There are exceptions such as; we are short a part and need to use several very short pieces of tape and reel parts.
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 02 11:06:14 EST 2004 | Morris
I'm wondering what others are doing with splicing SMT carrier tapes when necessary. (e.g to join cut tapes etc) The system we have seems kind of clumsy and when a tape is spliced, often causes jams in the feeder anyway. Any systems or advice you can
