Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 23 11:06:43 EDT 2007 | gmoritz
Steve Thomas: Thank you for the well-written, helpful explanations. Fastek: You must be an accountant. Your advice was totally correct, but of absolutely no use whatsoever. Why even post it? I was basically told; Suprise! You are in charge of o
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 30 15:28:25 EDT 2007 | gmoritz
I'm posting a diary of the major repair experience that we had this weekend. I'll follow up with a shorter post that sort of summarizes a few things. ------------------------------------------------ The service guys showed up at our facility about
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 06 11:58:48 EDT 2007 | gmoritz
Do you have BEC (Board Error Correction) > on that machine, and if so, did they > give you the alignment plate for it? I don't know if we have BEC on the machine. I can't even search the 550 page manual that was finally sent to us in a pdf file
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 29 00:13:24 EDT 2007 | slthomas
The two factories I've worked at that ran Radial Lead inserter/sequencers were both building their own products and we were able to specify our own panelization guidelines. One-half inch rectangular frame on all boards. Our universal workboard hold
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 21 13:04:58 EDT 2007 | jmelson
Hello, Is anyone using an SMT pick&place machine to insert single contacts into PC boards? I have some boards that have 32 female contacts for 1mm pins, and 16 contacts for 0.5mm pins. I have been using Mill-Max for these contacts, getting the sma
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 26 17:00:15 EST 2008 | slthomas
I haven't had the luxury of machine based pth assembly in quite a while, but when I did, given that the machines control which parts are inserted (and to a lesser degree where they are inserted) we decided not to perform inspection on that part of th
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 29 13:30:43 EDT 2016 | gregp
Versatec specializes in the remanufacture of Contact Systems machines, most notably the CS-400E component locator with programmable cut and clinch. these machines are field proven over the past two decades and provide many benefits when utilized: 1.
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 23 17:24:08 EST 2020 | rvines1
Due to couple of customers who still have some products that are completely through-hole, we use our Universal DIP and Axial equipment on a somewhat regular basis. Our machines are pretty old, but they work pretty well, and we don't do enough throug
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 31 00:07:24 EDT 2000 | Ramon I Garcia C
I Kyung: I'm not sure if we are working with PIHR but we insert some pines in a PCB with a pin inserter machine, after that we run this pcb in a screen printer and put over its solder paste, and then run in a chip shooter and then IC placer and f
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 04 11:04:27 EDT 2000 | John
We manufacture a mixed technology board, that uses a through hole "mini cap" with a 2.5 mm lead span. We have had several failures caused by solder wicking up through the plated through hole pcb and touching the can. This shorts out the capacitor.
