Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 19 12:48:29 EDT 2008 | ratsalad
From what I understand, the major reason Sn prices recently escalated was a crackdown on black market Sn mining in Indonesia, where most of our Sn originates. Add to that increased demand (not necessarily from RoHS, but from China, India, and other
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 19 15:05:20 EDT 2008 | patrickbruneel
Talking about lead-free idiocy. Here�s the result of what you get for being GREEN and paying trough the roof. Since the implementation of lead-free I don�t buy green shirts any more, because they charge me twice as much as the blue ones On the positi
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 26 09:19:20 EDT 2008 | nibirta
hi all...well i`m working in such a lab but we are working internally, and for our customers. But i can give you some prices from other labs. Cross section-one location is around: Solder Joint Integrity Std. sample plastic package $300.00 Shorts /
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 26 08:39:32 EDT 2008 | gabriella
Hello all, I have a interface card(PC) down on one of our Vitronics ovens model SMR-820A. The PC is very old. The card is mounted on ISA slot. Vitronics don't support these any more. Can anyone advise where I can find one of these cards or if I can
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 27 16:40:45 EDT 2008 | slthomas
(or just some static-safe foam tape) I need to seal a wire terminal block to a board for conformal coating purposes. Currently we glue it to a shim and glue the shim to the board (yuck), but I want to use die cut gaskets if I can make it cost effec
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 01 07:45:55 EDT 2008 | aj
Hi, We use the standard pin supports when necessary. Are your boards very thin i.e less than 1.6mm ? or maybe panelised ? Other things to check are Z0 placement height aswell as damaged nozzles,sticky nozzle/nozzle head , poor feeders along with t
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 17 16:59:44 EDT 2008 | jmelson
What sort of parts are you looking for? I'd think the springs are fairly non-critical, and easily picked out of a big spring catalog. There are some E-clips and such things, but everything else (in their older feeders, at least) look totally custom
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 16 15:44:35 EDT 2008 | jwolvans
Just a thought: if nothing else makes sense, you might want to watch the action of the edge-hold chains of the reflow oven, are they moving smoothly and uniformly around the drive gears and idlers? I've actually seen the situation where the chains we
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 17 07:54:02 EDT 2008 | davef
Our quality types wouldn't allow: Q16 on "1up good board2.jpg", Q17 on "1up good board.jpg", or Q15 on "1up good board3.jpg". They'd probably pass Q13 on "Q13 next to Q14 no-reflow.jpg", if it wasn't part of a bigger issue. Again, you appear to have
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 16 14:18:41 EDT 2008 | pima
Anyway thanks for any input from you Guys. Because at the moment we are trying to connect some products on one SMT platform (some short run about 100-500 boards from one product and changeover )and I just want to listen about ur experience with any k
