Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 19 20:33:14 EDT 2006 | davef
I just flew in from (insert city) and boy are my arms tired. pr: Likely, you're correct. The "pound-inch" units should have been the give-away, for us. Good catch. If this is the case, the frame fabricator would be the best source for tensioning
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 24 09:43:47 EDT 2006 | printerman
What you describe is the X snuggers fitted into the workholder which do need either a flat board or good vacuum to work. There are several solutions. One solution you can try yourself is to use Vacuum cups, ( bellows type) designed into the workholde
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 09 12:35:00 EDT 2006 | G. eisner
We are finding this diode not reflowing well. We are having tombstoning issues with this part and only this part on different pcbs. The main thing we find is that under a scope there is blow outs as in air bubbles that look like they have exploded. I
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 20 19:15:19 EDT 2006 | grantp
Hi, What are your thoughts about the article saying that the lead will leach out of the solder joint to the last place to cool, creating a weak point? I have two worries about the report. First, is that we have always used tin lead solder, and le
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 04 10:48:08 EDT 2006 | Rob
Hi Piet, We looked into this too at some length (we do a lot of FPGA and 16 & 32 bit micro designs) and every semi auto machine we checked out was to be fair, crap. Especially on the number & type of devices you could sucessfully handle, set up & a
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 17 14:20:49 EDT 2006 | Jay Hardin
Hello everybody, My name is Jay Hardin and I'm the MS2 Applications Manager for P. Kay Metal. I was just informed of this thread and will post my 2 cents when needed. I'm the guy who goes out in the field and makes sure MS2 is installed properly and
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 04 13:47:20 EDT 2006 | pemea1
apples to apples. 20 boards 80 parts top and 10 parts bottom. these boards are done on a semi regular basis (you know the boards are coming to you from an OEM at least three times a month, just no exact schedule). All that is required is pasting..mo
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 22 03:04:07 EDT 2006 | PP
Any help/suggestion is much appreciated I am doing lots of BGA Reworks from a small uBGA with a few balls to a large BGA with over 1500 balls. The reworks have been done on SRT 1100 Series Machine for many years. SRT 1100 Machine is good for the c
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 29 11:34:42 EDT 2006 | pr
WOW, for having never spent more than a drive by with the units and NEVER having set it up or used it, you are a wealth of info. who say's you can't learn anything from the fine smtnet archives? You definately have bean bags on the chin (mind) cause
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 12 01:54:57 EDT 2006 | AR
I assume that you are referring to the same kind of mechanical feeders (older type) that are used on the Philips (Assembl�on) Topaz as well. First make sure that the right gear pulley spring is set to its stiffest position (the loop at the end of the
