Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 05 16:26:53 EDT 2006 | Bill
Thinking about this auto-mode on Grid-Lok..... Ok, the board is warped, lets say positively, the pins conform to the warped board... what about the effect on top side and squeegee pressure? It will be much higher and could damage stencils, right? Pos
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 29 17:36:39 EDT 2006 | aj
Hi Bruce, We are a CM aswell and I can sympathise with your situation but you will have to advise the customer that you have issues with this board finish and recommend an alternative. If they are exempt why are they supplying you with Leadfree Boar
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 12 10:55:29 EDT 2006 | slthomas
I found this searching the archives. Unfortunately Bob doesn't seem to have an active site anymore, just references by people he works for. It's a shame, because there was a load of good stuff there. Haven't looked at Phil's site for a while but it's
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 19 00:35:54 EDT 2006 | darby
Fred, We receive ENIG pcbs in vac-formed bubble wrap with ,of all things, polstyrene packing! Despite my long-lasting complaints nothing has changed. BUT - I have never really had a problem with any of these PCBS. There are no moisture, salt or any o
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 14 19:19:38 EDT 2006 | SWAG
I would try to panelize as big as you can for sure as you'll spend more time handling single boards than running anything. Additionally, this size is very close to smallest capabilities on GSM depending on your configuration. Fids on all boards in
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 20 06:01:20 EDT 2006 | bobpan
Sounds to me like your nozzle isnt seating on the z-rod bellows. Pick a nozzle up by do a 'runstep nozzle'.....then do a function 30 ( i hope thats the function because its been YEARS since i worked on a c'series). It should give you a nozzle height
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 20 15:25:15 EDT 2006 | lheiss
Hey All, Thanks for all of your help to date. While running the nozzle height test I noticed that the Z-rod is bent. Probably happened after setting the "X closed loop soft home" back to 50 from 384 which was probably why the nozzle slammed into t
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 27 13:58:49 EST 2007 | wavemasterlarry
Sorry James but Im no sales man. Just becasue i answer peoples questions with some answers they don't want to here makes me a bad guy well thats fine. And if you don't want my advise thats fine to. I know people pick on us smarter guys and I can d
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 28 12:17:58 EST 2007 | rob_thomas
So It happens that we are having an installation crew here working on our second wave solder machine. It is a Vitronics Soltec that we bought for lead free processing. I personally used Ekra and vitronics and Electrovert at other companies. I believ
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 22 17:18:40 EDT 2006 | basem
Thanks Rob, thanks much. Bill, take it easy. You have a well controlled image (considering the brain-washing machine of the American media) of Syria that is fairly wrong. I lived in the US for six continous years and I really know what I am talking a
