Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 21 12:22:26 EST 2006 | billwestiet
I work for a company importing Wave Solder Machines from China, and I continue to be amazed at how many new importers I run into. Many of which have not sold more than one or two machines. I'm looking to try to come up with a list. Who do you know
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 21 19:07:36 EST 2006 | greg york
Serious question here, why do all the Lead Free Chinese Wave Soldering machines I have seen come in set at 5 Degrees angle - It doesn't work and bridges all over the place until th eangle is changeds. Are you guys finding this? Thanks Greg York
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 28 10:26:46 EST 2006 | russ
interesting Bill, will keep an eye out. Was not necessarily saying anything about Chinese product, just the engineering, I have seen a few Chinese "Vitronics" ovens and yes they seemed to be put together very well, I was only mentioning how it/the
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 28 10:31:04 EST 2006 | billwestiet
I do need to agree with you. There are definetly clones out there. Som look identical on the outside. And there could be serious concerns about support. One bad hard drive can turn a machine into scrap if you can not get s/w or support. People n
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 28 16:05:29 EST 2006 | Steve
Well said. From my experience, the Chinese would ship out of spec. product knowing full well it does not meet the requirement. If we catch it, good for us . . . otherwise we are #@%$%#. The Japanese (and others) on the other hand would rather pull
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 24 06:59:54 EST 2006 | LM
I remember many moons ago seeing a refridgerator for storing solder paste which issued them out in a FIFO manner and had the option of a PC and bar code scanner for logging them in and out to the lines. I can't seem to find any trace of it on the net
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 06 17:06:06 EST 2006 | Mario Scalzo
For a not-so-technical solution, we have a few customers that are using a Maytag "SkyBox". Available from Home Depot. Like a small soda vending machine, but allows you to control the dispensing. Sincerely, Mario Scalzo-CSMTPE, Dartmouth 6 Sigma G
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 27 08:05:50 EST 2006 | davef
There is no standard for a strain gage measurement of allowable deflection of a board or a fixture. It's possible that your fixture is causing the BGA cracking that you see. What protion of the BGA is cracking? If it is the solder connection, sear
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 28 07:55:58 EST 2006 | davef
Too much solder paste is NOT in our "Top Ten Causes of Tombstoning". Try: * Searching the fine SMTnet Archives for background * Looking here: http://www.efdsolder.com/PDF/EFD-Tombstone-Troubleshooting.pdf We have no relationship, nor receive benef
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 30 09:51:53 EST 2006 | Loco
Thanks for the replies, it is getting clearer now. We called a PCB supplier and acted if we didnt know what was what, he actually told us its all the same, chemical, flash, immersion, all the same... It is now getting clearer why we are sometimes ge
