| | You should consider throwing in a bottle of Tylenol (they are going to need it) | | Ouch! That hurt. | I appreciate a good sense of humor, but I don't appreciate your UNQUALIFIED quip at my expense. Your comment could hurt my chances of finding a buyer, and I'm willing to bet that you don't have any direct experience with this equipment. What say you? Anyone interested in this equipment deserves facts and details about the equipment. As a matter of fact I do have DIRECT EXPERIENCE with this equipment I had 3 4713 with vision (which by the way was next to useless), You should mention if they have not allready will shortly stop supporting this equipment(spare parts), and good luck getting technical support for it. The pump when working does well, but you are right lots of tweeking involved, and the results aften times are strings and skips. | My experience with the 4713D (i.e., 8 years engr. support) has been very positive. It's been reliable (much, much better than the Universal pick & place equipment of the same vintage). The 4713's positive displacement pump -- a Creative Automation design -- has been repeatible and durable in our process. Witness the fact that Universal uses a similar, lighter-weight version of the same Creative Auto pump on the GDM. I have just three complaints about this machine: | (1) Our 4713D has no fiducial camera, so it relies on less accurate (and much less flexible) tooling pin registration. It's not a great machine for dispensing 0603 dots. | (2) The 4713D is slower than new, high-speed dispensers (e.g., about half as fast as the GDM) | (3) The programmable volume control motors/encoders/sensors (one set per head, Z4 & Z5 axes) require periodic adjustment...more than I'd expect. | The first complaint listed above is the most serious; this is reason I suggested that our 4713D would work well for a company who already operates this equipment (and therefore can use the tooling pin registration scheme without modifying their board/panel designs). Basically, it's an aging but usable machine with a limited market. I'd rather sell it for a very small sum than scrap it. | Yes, I'm finished now :)
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