Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 27 08:07:42 EST 2002 | caldon
Ovation Products (devision of Airline Hydraulics) makes a fixture just for Screen printing and PNP machines. This product is called grid lock. It's tooling that is air actuated and conforms to the bottom side of your PCB with gentle (gentle enough no
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 04 14:14:19 EST 2003 | moncav
In the spirit of the open forum, I would rather not advertise our product. However, if you would please contact me personally, I would be very happy to discuss bottomside support tooling with you. By watching the forum, we try to give educated, ge
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 13 18:29:35 EST 2004 | Tom B
I agree with Fastek. Universal tooling is the way to go if you got high changeover. Another option is Grid Loks support system (http://www.grid-lok.com/) Basically remove the ztower and add this system. It'll cost ya about 10K. Get board snugge
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 05 16:26:53 EDT 2006 | Bill
Thinking about this auto-mode on Grid-Lok..... Ok, the board is warped, lets say positively, the pins conform to the warped board... what about the effect on top side and squeegee pressure? It will be much higher and could damage stencils, right? Pos
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 13 19:06:49 EDT 2016 | dontfeedphils
Well I've tried to get in touch with Ovation for weeks now without luck, so maybe someone here will have the answers I'm looking for. One of our Grid-Lok Gold modules is leaking air from the sides (it pushes the pins up fine, but when air is applied
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 03 12:30:34 EDT 2001 | hinerman
This technology currently works with stencil printers, placement machines, and dispensing equipment with equal success. Not all are commercially available yet. The placement machines with a moving table and weight resrtrictions are more of a chal
Electronics Forum | Sun Nov 14 18:28:05 EST 2004 | dorklover664
From talking to the DEK rep. the Red-E-Sets seam to be the way to go if you are watching cost. We have a 30-day �trial� of them right now so I will post what we learn. I keep trying to talk my manager in to the Grid-Loks but I don't know if that�s go
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 18 09:52:36 EDT 2005 | pjc
FormFlex and the GridLok system will not work on a semi-automatic printer. They were designed for fully automatic machines. The print table is very shallow on the DEK 248, SMTechs and MPM SPM, UP100 and MicroFlex. DEK should have magnetic base suppor
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 29 14:21:24 EDT 2006 | billyd
Dude: I have used the Grid-lok system before, in DEK 265 and DEK Infinity printers (clamps) and they worked quite well. But, we did have the side clamps. I'm not sure how that translates to an MPM. They were the best we could find as far as the
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 05 15:48:02 EDT 2010 | markhoch
Okay, I tried searching the fine SMTnet Archives on this and I don't see anything newer than five years old, so I thought I'd try and get a modern take on the Grid Lok, Gel Flex, and Vacunest Board Support Systems. Who is using what, and do l You lik
