Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 01 19:57:07 EST 2002 | davef
Selective soldering machines are a good way to "finish automation", if the design of the PCB is conducive to the application with just a few components to solder. Your points are good. A decision matrix for selecting a machine might also include:
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 16 14:42:20 EDT 2002 | stefwitt
I think this licensing thing was a poor decision to begin with. I can understand the reasoning for GenRad to issue a software license, to protect their product against cloning. Why Universal followed could have been caused by the take over and the
Electronics Forum | Fri May 17 15:50:17 EDT 2002 | davef
Now that�s a switch. Most are moving or properly have moved in the polar opposite direction. Dano, has someone been drilling your teeth lately? We use water washable flux to: * Remove solder balls. [Or put another way, we don�t have to screw-down
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 24 23:21:26 EDT 2002 | ppcbs
Being in the line of BGA rework and having performed much rework on boards that go into military planes, I can give you an opinion from a practical background rather than an in depth study. Basically BGA's have caused many of my customers big headac
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 20 18:15:02 EDT 2002 | davef
Haaaaa!!!! Soldering to plastic!!!! An apt analogy!!! I like to compare it to soldering to dirt. Some thing. In fact, you are soldering on nickel, when soldering on many things. It�s just that the gold, er Pd, flash enables the wetting mechanism
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 21 17:44:32 EDT 2002 | davef
Splitting hairs, I expect SIR of all solderability protection, including OSP, to decrease after reflow. What�s more, I expect the SIR of all solderability protection to pretty much decrease over time. The �comb pattern� test specimens meet requirem
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 14 20:32:41 EST 2003 | davef
There's just about 4 beezillion companies that give solder training. Some are: * BEST Rolling Meadows, IL 847-797-9250 Bill Westmoreland (bwestmoreland@solder.net) http://www.solder.net/ * Circuit Technology 340 Raleigh St Holly Springs, NC 27540 (
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 10 01:09:37 EDT 2003 | iman
Hi! Thanks to you as the first replier! I do admit it "narrows" the information channels feedback flow by keeping this thread reply limited to "non-commercial" engineering folks, but I already have lotsa war stories from the salesmen around this reg
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 13 19:16:03 EST 2004 | pjc
Dedicated tooling uses what MPM calls an "H" tower. You mount the board support plate (dedicated tooling) on top of the H tower. If boards are only single-sided SMT, meaning only components on one side, the board support plate is flat with vacuum hol
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 04 14:05:06 EDT 2004 | pjc
Please be careful about responses you get. Opinions run rampant and it is not wise to make a decision on equipment based on opinions of others. For example, you may get five negative replies on a piece of equipment from five incompetent idiots. Certa
