Hi MoonCaveMan,
Missed you at APEX, together with alot of other folks. "9/11&economy" have a
gruesome impact.
The IPC document numbers came from Dieter--I think; I, among others in the
TAEC protested the change from numbers like IPC-SM-785 [Surface Mount],
IPC-MF-150 [Metal Foil], IPC-D-279 [Design] to such non-descript entiies as
IPC-7901, IPC-2222, etc., but as you can see to no avail.
Among all of the IPC documents, my exhaustive search found no standards on
either balsa wood orC-clamps. Now, if you would make the C-clamps out of
copper, you would have a nice heat sink. Would you want to chair a committee
on this subject?
Seriously, though, your "small, but very much on the rise non-manufacturing
oriented telecom
company" will not be rising much farther, if they assemble BGAs/PWAs this
way. I do not think you reallllly need any help with this.
Can I top this story? Would this qualify? At Bell Labs--the former vibrant
Bell Labs, not the current empty shell--one guy tried to pattent the idea of
putting a screw in the center of the package and fasteninng it to the PCB
through a hole with a nut.

Werner

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