Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 29 13:29:08 EDT 2007 | JD
Ewwww metal mini stencils? Try http://www.circuitmedic.com/products/stencils.shtml We use their flextac stencils all the time and they work perfect. You can get a couple uses out of each of them if youre careful too. Just line it up under a scope and
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 30 11:56:08 EDT 2007 | JD
We have had issues with using the ones from Best. The holes are not always cut correctly and the edges (inside the holes) are not well defined because of the kapton material they use maybe. Plus you leave the mini stencil on the PCB under the BGA whi
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 03 03:31:51 EDT 2007 | chrissieneale
Apparently because the machines are old and prone to break down they do all the printing for the day (maybe 6/7 different board types) up front. This doesn't make any sense to me - if the machine is going to break down, the machine is going to brea
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 16 09:13:16 EDT 2007 | pjc
Tombstone head and a graveyard mind. I would not recommend 1:1 due to solderpaste beed out opportunities. Have you tried the inverted home-plate? Here are some good links on tombstoning and how to eliminate it: http://www.aimsolder.com/technical_ar
Electronics Forum | Sun Apr 15 13:56:29 EDT 2007 | bondheli
Hi Brand new here and I really need some help on a problem with a Philips CSM84V. We have programs loaded and they worked fine awhile ago. When we hit run now, the conveyor starts running without the board being present (says "transporting pcb" not w
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 19 11:53:12 EDT 2007 | Cal
I am part of the intern and Coop program here at work and see a trend of students doing just the opposite of getting a degree and going off to work for cash. We are seeing students taking up dual majors...1 in eng and 1 in Business. They understand
Electronics Forum | Sat Apr 21 19:24:59 EDT 2007 | Frank
Remember the good old days when we would boycott the Olympics in Russia because they were the "Commy bad guys"? Now that China is hosting, are we going to boycott now? We are too weak to do something like that now. I certainly wish we would. Plus
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 27 08:26:43 EDT 2007 | basem
The machines will be located in Damascus, Syria and so we can't/don't want to acquire any U.S. assembled machinery for several different reasons. As far as I know, My Data is U.S. made? Correct? Please let me know. Our support for DIMA will be thro
Electronics Forum | Sat Apr 28 02:20:43 EDT 2007 | basem
Grant-Thanks for letting me know that MyData is made in non-U.S. made machine. Cal-Thanks, I will be sending you an email to your email account you have provided. I have contact MIMOT already, however, they are VERY expensive machines and it will no
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 30 22:41:29 EDT 2007 | davef
Cross: IPC nor anyone else calls out recommended pressures for washers used to clean circuit boards. IPC and the other standards setting folk are in the business of defining the expected results or outputs of processes or acceptance criterion. They
