Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 14 21:58:43 EDT 2008 | proy
NO WAY I had seen this 10 years ago, and got into a 'p' match with the PCB fabricator. We had failures after wave solder, the thermal ezpansion caused cracks in the 'knee' where the skinny little trace go's over into the barrel. even if not failin
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 15 00:51:30 EDT 2008 | boardhouse
Hi Paul, My discloser, I sell for an offshore house, this is Crap.... Section 3.4.3 Annular Ring (External) of IPC-6012A, which also calls out Table 3-5, states that "Plated-through holes identified as vias can have up to 90 degrees breakout of t
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 22 14:24:54 EDT 2008 | boardhouse
Paul, I would do two things, eval whole lot for any etching issues as shown above and scrap and two I would have your copper thickness checked, my guess your copper plating will be low. Check plating thickness in Via holes - if less then 8/10th's r
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 15 22:44:46 EDT 2008 | zpivy
Hi, everybody, our company is looking for some PCB CAM engineers to do a part-time job. Job descriptiom: analyse the Gerber auto-checking result and give feedbacks to us. Requirement: Proficiency in CAM350 / Genesis / GC-CAM software, strong inf
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 18 10:42:04 EDT 2008 | floydf
We are in the process of preparing for a new board that requires paste in hole processing. The hole is a .020" via, and our customer wants it filled with solder, but not bulging past flush. For printers,we use a DEK 249 with a squeegee, and a DEK 260
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 18 14:17:08 EDT 2008 | patrickbruneel
Here's another good one �Problems Implementing The Restriction of Hazardous Substances� http://desicritics.org/2008/08/17/120825.php Unfortunately it might take another 2 years to gather enough data on how much damage lead-free has done to our ind
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 19 08:15:29 EDT 2008 | wavemasterlarry
Listen sounds like empty rehtoric to me. Frankly Im sick of all the politics in this world as well as the politics of this crazy PCB board business. Im sick of travelling so much with the gas prices be-ing what they are and all these politicians. Mca
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 20 08:37:35 EDT 2008 | davef
WML: We're curious. When you do an antibath protest: * How do people around you distinguish between you protesting and you being ill kempt? Do you wear on of those sandwich signs? Do you distribute leafletts? Do you have a canned dialog explaining th
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 19 20:44:38 EDT 2008 | fede
Hello Gentlemen. Looking for an AOI for my company�s high-mix mid-level production SMT lines; I�ve investigated almost all suppliers. I also read several posts in this forum. I live in Argentina, so it�s very difficult for us to visit their facilit
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 03 17:44:07 EDT 2008 | Frank
Not to quibble, but I have been a Juki user for over 12 years and starting with the Juki machines 750/760 and all machines since support 8 characters for reference designators. We are even looking to upgrade later next year and they have already con
