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Re: Work in Process

Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 24 21:44:27 EST 2000 | Dave F

Horace: Area you in the rainy or the dry portion of the South? ;-) Now, excuse me from mincing words with you ;-) �, but buying a manufacturing software package is a serious (expensive) endeavor that will leave no part of your company unscathed. I�d

Wave Soldering Flus Selection

Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 15 14:05:20 EDT 2001 | CPI

In response No that�s not all you need to think about, but lets look at each and then talk of others. a)The condition of the solderable surface on boards (and components) degrades over time or can be supplied in poor condition (to thin or thick HASL

Contamination test

Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 30 21:03:44 EDT 2001 | davef

You should specify the level of res based on the effect of the res on the end-use of the product. J-STD-001 defines cleanliness requirements for ALL flux types, including water soluble and no-clean that you mention. 1 There is no equivalency betwee

aoi inline

Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 03 17:00:57 EDT 2001 | mparker

Start with a definition of what you expect the AOI to achieve at each station. Will your in-line machine be post print? Place (pre-reflow) or post reflow? Rather than buy one very expensive machine to put at the end of the line, maybe a couple of

Re: Which SMD placement machines are easiest to use?

Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 27 06:12:14 EST 2000 | Dean

Opeator point of view: 1. eassy to read menues. Organized structure. Large text and use of color to indicate important info status...green=good, yellow= warning, red=fatal etc. Simplicity rules in this realm. GUI are great for operations screens

Re: Buying stenciling and pick and place equipement.

Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 20 13:39:08 EST 1999 | Wolfgang Busko

Hi Clarissa, seems to be a real start up situation you are in. For the printing there is IMO no need to buy any sophisticated automatic-vision-alignment-self-cleaning-inline-and-more-machine. Features you need: - adjustable in X-,Y-,Z-axis (individu

Re: Recycling Solder Paste?

Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 12 16:26:01 EDT 1999 | Jeff Sanchez

| | | | We have three buckets filled with leftover solder paste from our screen printing process. Kester has informed me that they no longer take paste, but only dross and pot dumpings. Does anyone know if there's someplace I can recycle this, or a

Re: opinion of these rework stations

Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 28 08:27:55 EDT 1999 | Earl Moon

| if anyone has used or has one of these bga rework stations please give me your opinion on them. I am planning on using the sytem for not only rework but also low volume prototype production for hand built 1 or 2 qty pcb's, so ease of use is impor

Re: 63/37 vs 65/35 solder

Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 27 14:09:51 EDT 1999 | JohnW

| | | We are currently using a 65/35 solder for our wave process but are considering switching to a 63/37 for a substantial cost savings. No one here seems to know why we everused a 65/35 formulation in the first place. | | | I understand 63/37 to be

Re: Specifying Pcb Format/Construction. Help!!

Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 26 16:14:08 EDT 1999 | John W

| Hi Murray! | | Justin pretty much summed things up...covered all the points. So I'm just gonna give you my preference of what I like other than HASL finish. | | Electroless Nickle/Immersion Gold...nice flat pads...hmmmmmmm, Steve likes flat pads.


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