Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 07 15:37:32 EDT 2001 | Claude_Couture
Kerryn, It's the first time I hear someone who needs an automated inspection machine to check the cleanliness of stencils. Why not improve on the cleaning method itself. I use ultrasonic batch cleaner. It takes 3 minutes to clean a stencil, 2 minutes
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 22 14:25:22 EDT 2007 | russ
Go inform the owner of your company that you are spending hours of labor dealing with these parts instead of spending the extra 4 dollars it takes to buy an entire reel. When we deal with strips we make sure that an extra amount is ordered to apply
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 06 11:16:20 EDT 2014 | clayton
While I have had very limited experience with mancorp, the experience I have had, has been less than satisfactory. However I do have a great deal of experience with Essemtec. I currently own two complete turnkey smt lines from Essemtec and couldn't
Electronics Forum | Tue May 06 09:38:41 EDT 2003 | blnorman
We use both labels and lasers to mark our boards. Since implementing the lasers, the downtime attributed to bar code labels on those lines have dropped to virtually nothing. We still have problems with the labels wrinkling during reflow making read
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 21 17:44:32 EDT 2002 | davef
Splitting hairs, I expect SIR of all solderability protection, including OSP, to decrease after reflow. What�s more, I expect the SIR of all solderability protection to pretty much decrease over time. The �comb pattern� test specimens meet requirem
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 25 10:31:05 EDT 2014 | sara_pcb
The boards are baked for 2 hours at 120 deg C Regards, R.Saravanan
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 01 09:55:07 EDT 2016 | mmjm_1099
Just curious on if anyone knows of a Kelly Blue Book for Smt Equipment out there. We have some older machines and looking to sell or scrap. I would like to know a fair market value if these machines are still being used or if they are now retired. Th
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 01 16:12:49 EDT 2004 | gregf912
The 10k rebuild does not need to be applied every 3-4 months as previosly stated. A cp machine that is running 100% of the time on a 24/7 basis will tack up 10k hours in 12.4 months. Now we all know that this is impossible due to parts shortages, pro
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 04 14:03:18 EDT 2004 | Frank
I know Juki has the headquarters in NC, but they have a support office in the Silicon Valley with spare parts. I know they go to the NW area quite often from that office. They offer their customers 7-day/24-hour free phone support (including holida
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 25 10:11:03 EDT 2008 | bandjwet
We recently sent some PCB assemblies along with the schematics to a test services provider. Afer paying for the NRE tooling charges we were paying $75.00 per hour for the service providers Level 1 test technicians. Does this sound like a fair rate (w
