Electronics Forum | Mon May 14 09:39:26 EDT 2018 | raylawre
How hard is it to find green plastic spatulas for solder paste application?!? Everything I find online specific to the industry is coming out of the UK or so it seems. Nothing stateside? I hate to hit up our paste vendors for freebee spatulas (althou
Electronics Forum | Mon May 21 03:54:44 EDT 2018 | robl
Yep, we've had good kit off of Equipmatching.com and this site before, direct from users. Also speak to the manufacturers official distributors as they often look to shift old kit when they are putting in new. Sometimes you have to work hard for
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 29 13:46:52 EDT 2018 | robl
That's a good price with low hours. It's cheaper than an annual service. If handled correctly, with new copy Chinese feeders ($50 USD each), and good copy nozzles, and fixed set ups you should get a lot of use out of it. Personally I'd want some
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 23 08:52:20 EDT 2018 | mgerrior
Hey Everyone, looking to purchase a new rework station to support large PCBs. Currently up to a maximum of ~ 21" x 18". Does anyone have experience with any of the following equipment or can recommend from other manufacturers? - VJ: Summit 2200
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 24 07:37:35 EDT 2018 | fugtussey
PACE Worldwide has a new BGA Rework Station slated for production next month called the TF 2800. . It is based on the PACE's popular TF 1800 BGA & SMT Rework System (see TF1800 at http://www.paceworldwide.com/products/area-array-bga-rework/bga-rework
Electronics Forum | Sat Mar 09 01:27:23 EST 2019 | buckcho
Hi, Rob. I have used Parmi and Koh Young SPI. Both have epmSPI software in which you load stencil gerber, load cad data(if you want) connect the pads to the designators, point fiducials and done. Can take from 10-15 up to 30 minutes, depending on how
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 01 16:50:40 EDT 2018 | stephendo
A few times I have had success limiting movement in the oven by splitting up the paste apertures. In this case it might work if you had three bricks perpendicular to the leads.(maybe more) The trick would be making the gap between them big enough to
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 09 14:00:51 EDT 2018 | tey422
To me the most challenge would be the printing step. If you can print it, you should able to run it with SMT. We ran similar thickness flex boards before. But it's long flex with small stiffener at both ends, and it was 10up array. You need fixture
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 02 10:02:03 EDT 2018 | emeto
Now you are going too deep. Purchasing should have nothing to do with your placement cost. Reducing part numbers too. These are separate processes and should be evaluated separately. You have: 1. Machine time and cost -utilities -maintenance -consu
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 12 13:07:20 EDT 2018 | SMTA-Shafiq
Thanks Evtimov. I was actually looking for both. 1. Cost per placement For SMT: Your proposal is the following? (Hourly labour rate of operator + hourly machine & maintenance cost + hourly utilities cost) / # of components placed per hour 2. This
