Re: It's Alive!

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "Mariss Freimanis
<mariss92705@y...>" <mariss92705@y...> wrote:

> John,
>
> 1) Manual stencil machine. No point for an automated one
> because this step takes only 30 seconds.
>
> 2) I use top side SMT only. Doing top and bottom triples
> the process time (top mount, reflow, glue dispense, bottom
> mount, reflow again). Nightmares are made that way; parts
> falling off in the oven, a "glue accident" in the machine, etc.
>

Doesn't all the bare green on the bottom drive you nuts?
<grin>

> 3) The oven is an Essemtec 6 zone IR oven, (preheat, soak
> and reflow both top and bottom). About 3 minutes from the
> goezinta to the goezouta.
>

What about thru-hole parts - connectors, electrolytic caps,
FETs, etc,? Hand insert and solder?

John Kasunich