Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 19 10:27:06 EST 2002 | amir
in regards to repairing all these boards, do they consider the end cost of the product whether it's worth it to do so or not? if it does, would you be able to do it in house? and how labor intense is the job? there are machines out there for mass rep
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 20 11:14:15 EST 2002 | cfraser
Guy's I am sorry but your dike removal process for chip components is midievil at best. The fastest way to remove a chip is with 2 solder irons. Place one iron on each end of the component. This process is completely safe and takes about 2 seconds pe
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 26 13:31:11 EST 2002 | pteerink
bought a line from an American company once. You couldn't miss it, all the machines were plastered with "Made with Pride in the USA" stickers. Was a great show of nationalism, stickers were nice and shiny too. Too bad the machines didn't work when
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 26 20:16:45 EST 2002 | fastek
Let's see......I sell Japanese assembly equipment, my wife drives a Japanese car, I drive a German car, my notebook is Japanese and my camera is Japanese. Why? I appreciate quality and in my opinion, buying SMT equipment from somewhere other than Jap
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 21 13:59:24 EST 2002 | vargas_s
We are actively looking to buy a Fuji CP6 series placement machine in the used market. We constructed a questionnaire for perspective sellers trying to get as much information out of them as we can regarding possible machines (serial numbers, dates,
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 21 15:00:31 EST 2002 | stefwitt
it became quite popular to ask for a so called licensing fee from the supplier. Without, you will not get serviced. You will have to add this to the cost, if you don't buy from Fuji and require spare parts. If the machine can be demonstrated from th
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 21 16:38:58 EST 2002 | Fuji Spares
Does the machine come with manuals, training? - do you get a feeder setup jig with the sale, is there any spares to go with it, do you have any contacts for spares, what sort of maintenance is required - how often etc. did the previous owner do the m
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 22 10:55:11 EST 2002 | slthomas
Dave, you are THE master of the search. I made the lame assumption that if they'd had layout specs. for a part, it would be part of the spec. Bad assumption. The layout for the decal from that page you linked to is exactly what I needed. I look
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 29 10:51:20 EST 2002 | lsmith
The IPC-EM-782 reads as follows: the adjustment factor is usually intended to increase the Z dimension slightly, but brings the Z maximum up to an even equivalent. Example if Zmax is 2.100mm then you would enter an adjustment factor of .100mm. The ad
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 29 11:32:37 EST 2002 | slthomas
Thanks, Larry, more good info. I think my designer has that spec. in his library. What we DID find that while we had the proper pattern called out in our in house spec. sheet for the part, the designers don't look at the spec. sheets. They just grab
