Electronics Forum | Sun Oct 31 17:38:42 EST 2004 | Ian
GerberGrab does exactly this, and it's low cost, and you can use it for a month for free. It is a sophisticated but easy to use reverse engineering tool which will automatically generate top / bottom BOMs with placement and rotation after teaching of
Electronics Forum | Fri May 27 14:21:27 EDT 2005 | Frank
Back in the day, we had a small solder pot used for dipping ICs that were freshly removed from defective boards. What tool did we use to clean the dross? A small piece of card board. After the card board got too toasted, we'd grab a new piece of c
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 01 13:29:15 EDT 2006 | fastek
I agree Craig and I'm also not convinced DEK is really doing that well. I know they sell a ton of printers into Asia at around a 30%-40% discount to what they sell them anywhere else. A classic case of grabbing market share at the expense of profitab
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 18 10:07:55 EST 2006 | rmitchell
Good morning everyone, Our IP3 head 1 is making a loud squealing noise, sometimes bad enough to hit the e-stop as it locks up. This started over the weekend so I don't have all the facts. When I manually move the Z spindle up and down by grabbing
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 20 15:40:36 EST 2006 | slthomas
I'm no metallurgist but I don't think you're going to burn up lead with a soldering iron. That said, I would surmise that you could pull a lot of the metallization from the component terminations (very likely lead free) and the pads on the board (i
Electronics Forum | Thu May 24 16:09:06 EDT 2007 | ck_the_flip
So Stephen, I don't know what part of the country you're from, but during summer time, what DO you do with your air conditioning at home? "Your wrong" is a very general statement, without a "right" statement to counterpoint my wrong statement. Hon
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 16 15:44:35 EDT 2008 | jwolvans
Just a thought: if nothing else makes sense, you might want to watch the action of the edge-hold chains of the reflow oven, are they moving smoothly and uniformly around the drive gears and idlers? I've actually seen the situation where the chains we
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 23 08:17:46 EDT 2009 | kpm135
I've run into mysterious light curtain errors before and what was happening was when the head moved across the top of the components one of the clear tape covers would flutter up and trigger the curtain then it would settle back down on top of the ta
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 23 08:19:52 EDT 2009 | rgduval
Check to see if there's a loose cable, or something, that's randomly setting off the light curtain. We occasionally have that problem with some of our flex or 12/16 mags in our TP9, where the tape take up clip is loose (nothing in that feeder) and i
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 07 02:07:11 EST 2011 | tpappano
Wow, there is a floppy drive hiding inside? I took a peek inside my unit when I first got it and didn't notice one. I will take a closer look! My second unit, that I just got, came with a grab-bag of odds and ends, and I found a ms-dos based utilit
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