Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 08 03:42:04 EST 2003 | smdtech
Hi All, I'm going to bye ESSEMTEC Pick and Place machine model: clm9000.Can anyone give me som einfo about the machine, the equipment for it,does it work well,does the feeders work well,about accuracy,reliabillity or whatever I should know. If some
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 09 21:28:01 EST 2003 | caldon
SMDTEch- Essemtec is a great value for the $. I was the Applications/ Product manager for Manncorp and think these are good little machines. For an unbiased opinion please contact Jeff Stong at ACI 610-362-1200 x224. The had one up until middle of
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 09 18:19:51 EST 2003 | babe
The Ersa system is fine however there are thermocoupling problems and the service from Ersa has been very poor of late. The Metcal won't handle larger boards and the heating is inconsistent.Especially with BGA components. We see this via inspection
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 13 15:20:04 EST 2003 | JohnW
Russ, unfortunately at the moment the preferred option of hi melt isn't available due to copyright issues. The current ball is made of 46/46/8 tin / lead / bismuth. ther ball's are 0.8mm in dia. The alloy actually has a plastic region around 170 and
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 13 11:47:05 EST 2003 | peterson
Hi Folks, I am trying to find a US Rep for SAKI AOI machines (specifically, BF942) It's an inline AOI made in Japan and efforts to contact the company in Japan have been unsuccessful. Additionally, any head to head comparisons between this machine a
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 13 12:33:27 EST 2003 | Steve Freeman
We are currently looking for a local source to perform in house, hands on training for PTH hand soldering and rework. The instruction must be hands on and cover from the basics of soldering through performing rework. We have investigated training thr
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 17 16:36:04 EST 2003 | MA/NY DDave
Hi As DaveF notes there are many sources. In one of my lives, I used to generate this business for one of the really good outfits i.e NTCu in Bethlehem, PA and I know of several more. You probably already get NTCu's mailing if you have been in the
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 13 20:49:24 EST 2003 | davef
One of the improvements in a recent site upgrade made the "Forum" the default location to "Search SMTnet". It appears that: * "Forum" is the default location for conducting searches. * Searches from other locations [ie, "Full Site", "Companies", "Ne
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 14 10:12:37 EST 2003 | bdoyle
Well really the software supports the ability to have a topic that says one thing and a subject that says another. We actually didn't write this forum software but used a 3rd party product (that we heavily modified). They had this feature in there
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 14 11:02:59 EST 2003 | soupatech
I found a feeder with a 2mm pitch and was told that although it was made for the CP4, it would work with the CP3. Before we throw out a thousand bucks, has anyone had experience loading parts off of a 2mm pitch tape with the CP3? The part is a 1.6
