Electronics Forum | Mon May 14 09:39:26 EDT 2018 | raylawre
How hard is it to find green plastic spatulas for solder paste application?!? Everything I find online specific to the industry is coming out of the UK or so it seems. Nothing stateside? I hate to hit up our paste vendors for freebee spatulas (althou
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 29 13:46:52 EDT 2018 | robl
That's a good price with low hours. It's cheaper than an annual service. If handled correctly, with new copy Chinese feeders ($50 USD each), and good copy nozzles, and fixed set ups you should get a lot of use out of it. Personally I'd want some
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 26 14:54:10 EDT 2018 | etmpalletguy
Be careful, and make sure you ask for proof that the liner your buying is ESD safe! Also, make sure your customer is aware that the liner is made from silicone, in most military & aerospace, no silicone can touch the PC! If your liners are 18x18 and
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 16 11:42:58 EST 2018 | reckless
Thanks for the explanation! I'm trying to google and find out more about the sapphire not finding much info on it. Also, trying to better understand the whole philips/assembleon/yamaha history especially on the GEM Yamaha line. Not much out there.
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 05 12:44:42 EST 2019 | davef
Again. Mirtec wins "best booth babe." Michele, at Seika, is my favorite booth babe of all time. Although, some of the ladies in the booths from Chinese companies were knock-out gorgeous!! It was insane that IPC put the CFX demo lines up on the seco
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 06 08:21:00 EST 2019 | SMTA-Bob
Over the years we have featured Defect of the Month videos on the UK smart-e-link forum. As members of SMTA Europe will be joining the forum in the coming months here is one of the defect videos created to show the solution to common problems Solder
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 05 09:11:11 EST 2019 | slayervv
The conveyor on our Topaz runs for about a second then stops. Turning on conveyor manually does the same thing. While conveyor is turned on manually, disconnecting and reconnecting 208AC at connection board starts the conveyor for a second then it
Electronics Forum | Mon May 06 11:45:32 EDT 2019 | slthomas
There are quite a few papers out there on the subject. Just enter "SMT void reduction" into google or other search engine and take your pick. That said, slow ramp rates and paste volume reduction are a good place to start. Although I haven't tried i
Electronics Forum | Wed May 29 10:28:24 EDT 2019 | etmpalletguy
#1) Is the card in panel form: (Y)/(N) #2) PCB thickness: Thin card: YES, Thick card: See above. #3) is the PCB warping during reflow? (Y)/(N) #4) Is the PCB Symmetrical is shape & size? These are just some of the questions you need to ask yourse
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 10 09:12:18 EDT 2019 | pcbconnectchina
Hello! Don, Yes, if the carrier is steel/stainless, it would be very hot when it comes out from oven. I heard that durostone (synthetic stone) carrier can meet your requirement, it can stand high temperature with low thermal transmission. So when it
