Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 05 21:11:35 EST 2000 | Dave F
The CDROM player in my personal computer just died and I replaced it with a more lively unit. Being an inveterate gearhead, of course I had to field strip the old CDROM player as soon as I pulled from my PC [and got the new one running]. There are
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 04 15:53:49 EST 2002 | kenBliss
Hi Steve I understand your point, the comments on the thread of which are slightly off of the original posted question but it still is handling. Handling is handling. If you pick up a board from one conveyor just to put on another conveyor that is
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 03 17:14:37 EST 2006 | mariss
To recap: 1) The machines use laser centering, not mech jaw centering. 2) The X7Rs are scattered on the board, center and edges. Improper de-panelization would favor damaging the parts near the edges of the board; this is not the case. 3) Both ROH
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 03 18:36:47 EST 1999 | Earl Moon
| Does anyone know if I will have problems soldering surface mount components to an all hard gold plated PC board. We want to use hard gold similar to gold used for edge fingers because our customer is concerned about wear and conductivity of connect
Electronics Forum | Tue May 03 09:47:03 EDT 2005 | denismeloche
We sell rework stations for all kind of components and boards. The systems are designed to fit a particular size board and it's very difficult to design a one size fits all system. I personally have a lot of experience reworking high mass, high hea
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 05 07:53:28 EST 2018 | wolverine55
Hello All We have a Universal Model 6287A that is estimated to be about 25 years old. It has run fine for most of it's life but recently has stopped communicating with it's host computer, whenever any commands were attempted to be sent to the machine
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 21 11:14:25 EDT 2004 | exmaintenanceleader
Dear Kanwaljit Singh, my opinion is following: 1)solderpaste type is ok - usual (alpha-metals has this problem inside the paste paste- holder problem) - what do the operator when production change -clean well the stencil holes!! no visible rest on
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 27 20:48:25 EST 2000 | Dave F
Robert: Howya doin' bud? You say "BGA Shorting!!!" I say "Too Much Solder!!!" So, earlier comments about aperture design are appropriate, make good points, and I think we both agree that improvements could be made in your stencil design, but I'm
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 18 11:52:35 EDT 1999 | Brian
| WE ARE CURRENTLY HAVING PROBLEMS REFLOWING BOARDS WITH WHITE TIN PLATING. WE ARE NOT GETTING GOOD WETTING ON THE PADS. | WE HAVE CHECKED THE REFLOW PROFILE AND TRIED DIFFERENT PASTE'S. | WE THINK THERE MAY BE CONTAMINATION OR OXIDATION ON THE PADS.
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 15 17:30:52 EST 1999 | marc p
| | | For the engineers who enjoyed the last two quizs I put on my web page here are two more. One on printed board manufacture and one on rework and repair of surface mount boards. Its a bit of fun but I feel that on line training is coming and is t