Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 13 14:59:48 EST 2001 | vargas_s
I have an application where a customer cannot get a 14 lead TSSOP device in time for his needs (his board design is fixed). He can however get the same device in a 16 lead SOIC wide body package (two leads are not used). Has anyone come across a cost
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 02 09:09:03 EDT 2001 | bdoyle
I was away for a week and a half on my honeymoon and I guess the pressure was off Neil. Actually he got sidetracked with some issues that came up but he has assured me that he's going to get them done shortly. Actually I went over to his desk and s
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 23 12:42:02 EDT 1999 | Bob Barr
Dear Administrator, On 9/25, a forum user named Seli posted a question titled "Electronic Manufacturing on the Beach". Out of 11 responses to his posting, exactly one had anything to do with his question. The other 10 were completely off topic. P
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 01 20:47:48 EDT 1999 | Scott McKee
I called a new customer today and told him that one of his parts on the proto boards (a capacitor with a polarity 'tit') was too long for the pads and the pads were small causing the end opposite of the "tit" to lift up. I suggested that the product
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 28 02:02:03 EDT 1999 | Joe Cameron
Hello all, I read about Steve's headache a few articles back and I'm really interested by his tip. However, I'm still wondering why square apertures release solder paste better than round ones. For the same volume of paste, the surface area of the
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 13 09:08:54 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
We suffered our first blood letting because of razor sharp edge clamps (DEK 265LT) and operator giving it the finger. While positioning magnetic tooling pins, one of our best slipped and really sliced off a part of his main digit. This will impact hi
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 09 17:05:22 EDT 1998 | Dave F
| I am looking for some guidelines on evaluating solder paste. I am specifically interested in No-Clean Pastes, as they are a completely new ball game when it comes to slump, tack time, stencil life, tack time, etc. | Thanks for any and all help give
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 10 19:04:16 EST 1998 | William Kelley
| Where I can buy the used Fuji or panasonic SMT line? My name is William Kelley and I am the customer service manager for Circuits Inc., we Install equipment for GE Capital which supplies used refurbished equipment nation wide. I dont know what area
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 18 10:55:53 EST 2002 | cebukid
Okay here's what happened. We've got a "bonepile" of old obsolet profile boards with thermocouples attached. I asked the production Supervisor, could he have one of his people DE-SOLDER the T/C's, put them in a bag, and give them to me. So, what h
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 18 15:00:17 EST 2002 | Chris Lampron
Good Day, We have been searching for ways to do this very thing. We have sent them out for cleaning in hot baths, ultrasonics, pressure wash, etc... The chains have come back cleaner than they left but not perfect. At one point, one of our engineers