Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 14 18:32:39 EST 2007 | kroberson
What machines have you worked with previously? Depending on the programming software used, CP6 can be relativly easy to program. CP6 has been a workhorse in the industry for a long time. One the process is set up, maintain the machines acording t
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 20 23:56:35 EST 2007 | isd_jwendell
I run a prototype/small-run shop, so I'll include some recommendations too: 1) Don't buy a machine for just what you are doing today. Once you get into this field you will find demand to do more. 2) Don't scrimp on the stencil & machine. You will spe
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 29 23:17:43 EST 2008 | operator
Dude... That is harsh. I quit the best paying job I had ,at that time, because the owners disrepected me over my deserved salary. I was the sole programmer at this little shop that for some reason lasted for years after I was gone, but anyway....Othe
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 30 14:11:15 EST 2008 | slthomas
We dodged it for a while but it was inevitable. Here's the question. What do I REALLY need, and does anyone even agree on it? OK, that's *two* questions. The first board we're likely to do has three parts that will need special consideration. One
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 12 13:16:42 EDT 2008 | ipdisplays
Hi All, I know some of this has been covered - but nothing recent that I could find - so please bear with me... Seems like the used/refurb market is kind of fluid so would like some current thoughts.... I'm looking to setup an inexpensive prototype
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 18 11:52:38 EDT 2008 | rrpowers
A couple years back we were looking at going to an enclosed solder paste printing process, similar to the ProFlow, Crossflow, or Rheometric Pump. We have older MPM AP25's with a custom transport. Speedline told us that in order to add the RheoPump,
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 02 19:52:03 EDT 2008 | operator
So what happens in this hypothetical model when the customer provides you all the data you asked for and then your programmer finds out that it is the wrong revision data or the BOM is truncated or the centroids are missing refs, etc... Then new data
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 05 20:20:30 EDT 2008 | mika
Of course this should never occur, but this, forgive me shitty worlds of a complex Flexa system, which makes me cry once in a while. Does anybody here at this forum know what it takes to install this shit? First You have to set up a dedicated Flexa
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 03 19:27:54 EDT 2008 | proy
5 Zone HVA70 Oven Board 6 layer, 10" x 13" lots of space, most critical is 100 pin QFP AIM Water Soluble 487 Tin Lead paste on SN100C HASL boards This board is giving me disproportionate grief! I am running 23 in / min which gives me about 3.1 mi
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 11 10:35:22 EDT 2008 | realchunks
We have an entire Industrial Eng crew that come in 2.5 hours after everyone starts work and leave 30 minutes after everyone leaves (that�s like having 65 extra working days off each year!). In that 30 minutes they take picture of what they think are
