Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 29 18:31:06 EST 2020 | slthomas
The 4 places I've worked in SMT all had their own solutions for their own reason. I quit worrying about what worked best if what I had worked OK. I've only seen (or recognized, at least) tension issues on foils that had been saved well beyond a rea
Electronics Forum | Sat May 13 07:03:16 EDT 2000 | Sal
guys, Currently running a very high volume product, with the gold fingers at the edge of the board masked off using Kapton tape to avoid any form of contamination during reflow and wavesoldering. I've heard alot of about the gold finger gloves, my q
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 10 18:05:11 EDT 2002 | mikestringer
What have your experiences been with static meters for maintaining your ESD program? As part of our ESD program I am after an improved method of identifying risk items, or items not performing to specification. We use wrist and foot straps, ESD flo
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 21 19:10:49 EST 2005 | fastek
Allow me to re-state my response. Hours on an oven would be the last thing I would care about if I wanted to know something about it. There is no standard lifespan on heaters, blowers and the like. They can last a year or ten. Sure you can assume a 5
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 08 16:00:04 EDT 2014 | comatose
The boards are expensive because they are your product... covered in circuitry. A 2% scrap rate costs twice as much as a 1% scrap rate. Say the parts on your consumer electronics board cost $5. A machine that makes 99% good boards and 1% bad boards
Electronics Forum | Tue May 01 09:58:20 EDT 2007 | rgduval
Basem, I can't direct you to a dispensing machine, as I'm not familiar with them. But, I can tell you what we do. We specialize in short volume, prototype quantity runs. Since prototypes and short quantities are not conducive to volume operations
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 22 14:45:01 EDT 2004 | Michelle Ogihara
As many people have participated in this email string, including competitors and customers of Sawa, I would like to respond to especially one rather detailed email expressing concerns with this stencil cleaning system. Also, this teaches me to keep