Electronics Forum | Tue May 02 12:14:44 EDT 2006 | russ
You are exactly right, tip life is greatly reduced with the pbfree alloys. Some mafgrs are using an extra thick plating to reduce this. Next directive will be to determine what to do with all the tips now.
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 19 19:31:19 EDT 2006 | Doug
We buy the old standard Aero Brand #1250 stamp pad ink in Black from Menke with a RoHS cert. No extra cost.
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 18 10:36:47 EDT 2006 | SWAG
We toss extras at tear-down unless it looks like an unusually large amount which could = qty. pick error from warehouse. In that case, we do a cycle count. All overages are issued when the kit is pulled so they are already taken out of stock.
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 15 17:09:51 EST 2007 | pr
Try copying the QFP52 (that works) and add the extra leads (calling it a new name).
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 22 15:25:16 EST 2007 | russ
Hmm our table is steel. We had extra supports made at a machine shop, bought the magnets from the hobby store. we basically just had steel rods cut off at 1" lengths and had a counterbore drilled to glue magnet in Russ
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 28 15:09:57 EST 2007 | Hussman
Some no-cleans will pool flux on the top of the solder joint which acts like an insulator. I normally do not paste "contact" pads. You can have your board house HASL them if you need the extra bump on the pad.
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 30 22:46:49 EDT 2007 | mika
Hi, Im just curious; Yoy are trying to fabricate the spring instead of not to purchase It from DEK or find a similar on the market?? How exactly are you going to aproach this task? And could you justify the extra costs for this? /
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 12 20:33:42 EDT 2007 | stimpk
I just rebuilt 3 Dek boards stops assemblies here at work. I think I purchased 5 or 6 extra springs. If you give me your mailing address I will donate you one free of charge.
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 23 14:24:04 EDT 2007 | ratsalad
Who is your stencil vendor? I've used three different vendors for Pb-free green frame stencils and NONE of them charged extra.
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 24 08:12:38 EDT 2007 | hussman
Yup, but that was along time ago. 25 years later and the over all IQ of our association has dropped severely. Oh by the way, I am getting a #3 with an extra.