Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 22 06:33:28 EDT 2004 | Grant
Hi, I wondered how people warmed up solder paste at the start of the days production. I saw some paste mixers at a show, but only saw ones that mixed small solder paste tubs, not tubes. Can you get mixers that handle tubes. They said these mixers a
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 11 18:59:21 EST 2005 | primus
We have been using Tape and Reel on our GSM for the SOIC-8 packages for a while, and it's working pretty well. Less operator error, less reloads, less jams (provided you take good care of the feeders) and LESS TUBES STUCK IN MY VCD SEQUENCER!!! I hav
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 06 14:00:27 EST 2005 | grantp
Hi, One of our suppliers suggested you could use the microwave to warm up the solder paste if you really needed to, and it did work for a full tube, but when I tried a half used tube, I thought I had invented a weapon of mass destruction. It was sca
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 21 09:10:27 EST 2006 | gregp
To everyone who hates vibe feeders, Follow this link--http://www.contactsystems.com/C5.htm Scroll down and click on the video clip that says stick feeders. Yes, I work for Contact System--but this is such a great solution for tube parts. I consider
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 14 14:16:25 EST 2007 | branman5
We are a pcb manufacturing facility and we have a question. We wash our boards in a metal wire rack that has latex � inch tubing connected to it so the pcbs do not move from water or air flow. It acts as a buffer between the wire cage and the pcb. Ca
Electronics Forum | Sun Mar 25 22:21:03 EDT 2007 | sleech
Let me explain. At 125 degrees C, the oven is above the boiling point of water. It will be vaporized and eventually be vented from the oven. However at temperatures of 90 degrees c and lower the relative humidity becomes an issue. For the life of me,
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 24 17:01:04 EDT 2008 | davef
We use a Charge Plate Monitor (CPM) tp monitor the balance of our ionizers, according to ANSI ESD STM3.1. Maybe you could use a CPM to assess the ionizing radiation in your plant. The more we think about it, we feel you could use a Geiger-Mueller (G
Electronics Forum | Thu May 07 17:39:17 EDT 2009 | xinxi
Thanks Milroy!!Just want to make sure I got the correct position for the sensor. Is the sensor fixed at the exhaust tube looks like a metal pipe and plastic tube that connects to the top of the machine? So do you mean I need to clean this metal pipe?
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 08 07:26:22 EDT 2010 | walkbury
Yes... I can generally get away with it for all but the low profile stuff such as tssop packages. The plastic tubes are so shallow anyway that once you've used a scalpel to create a pick up window, you've virtually got no side-wall left. Anything b
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 23 07:36:22 EST 2011 | scottp
We have a new site that is in the process of starting up and doesn't run much (1 tube every couple weeks). They recently called me about using expired paste. I told them to print a few scrap boards and run them through SPI to verify good print and
