Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 19 09:53:07 EDT 2004 | Mighty C
Good Morning Rush Fan, We have a Metcal VPI 1000. We are very happy with the system. The price is competitive, software is easy to use and the picture quality is good. They have a great lighting scheme that illuminates under a BGA extremely well. Th
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 23 05:14:40 EDT 2004 | greg york
Hi Thomas Ever considered that this maybe HASL flux left on PCB as this is extremely hygroscopic and has heat transfer fluids that cannot be baked out unless you go to a temperature of around 600C. One way of testing is to leave iron tip on joint an
Electronics Forum | Sun Jan 22 00:42:56 EST 2006 | mika
A couple of years ago, the airline SAS (Scandinavian Airlines System) introduce this "Formula 1" concept in Sweden. They did it very succesfully. Many people misunderstand the Formula 1 concept; thinking that you need a lot of people to do "things" a
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 26 02:49:46 EST 2004 | Mike
Help! I have a small SMT section that produces low volume but high mix assemblies and, therefore, has over 300 devices. I am looking for a low cost flexible storage solution and believe I have an idea which I recall is available but I cannot find w
Electronics Forum | Sat Feb 05 23:54:37 EST 2005 | sms_don
Hello, I found the previous discussion of lead free profiles on 5 zone ovens very interesting. I had the same concerns, but have recently succeeded in creating profiles on a 5 Zone QUAD oven that have eliminated solder splatter or Solder on Gold w
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 11 00:22:05 EST 2005 | Grant
Hi, That's what I am thinking, and we might have a dirty stencils and cannot see the problem. We are going to get a magnifier, and check it out. I did not think the stencil could bur, but I didn't want to shoot the guys down when they had an idea on
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 05 08:41:39 EDT 2005 | aj
Guys, I posted a thread on this sublect a while back and I thought we had it sorted but we have the same issue again. One of the SMT operators has chapped skin,sores which sometimes cause cuts. This looks extremely uncomfortable. We thought it was
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 07 09:56:01 EDT 2005 | bystrom123
I am having a common problem, justifying capitol expenses. We are currently using 0402's and BGA's and CGA's with 1MM centers. Our current equipment is horrible, we have a hand operated screen printer machine (No vision system) and we are placing all
Electronics Forum | Fri May 27 14:37:05 EDT 2005 | Frank
Look into the Juki KE-2060E machine. I have been extremely pleased with this machine. It will hold 80-8mm feeders, place 0201 (0603-metric) up to 74mm square ICs and BGA, 150mm long connectors. Up to 25mm tall components. It can handle up to 30 t
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 06 14:36:05 EDT 2005 | Bob R.
The only way we can consistently get a toe fillet is to use a paste with an extremely active flux. We allow that paste on certain products, but discourage it's use because it's on the hairy edge of not meeting our lower limit in surface insulation r
