Bev : it may be worth checking with Graham at Concoat on the status of the
MUST. According to press reports here Concoat are talking to Locticore about
selling certain aspects of their equipment division and MUST might fall into
this.

Best regards

Mike Fenner
Applications Engineer, European Operations
Indium Corporation
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  -----Original Message-----
  From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Bev Christian
  Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 7:55 PM
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  Subject: [TN] Wetting Balances


  I've been talking to the fellows at ACI/EMPF and we have decided we would
like to form a users group for the MUST System II Wetting Balance.

  I guess what I would like to see would be the following:
  1) Have multiple sources of advice for little problems
  2) Share info on the test parameters for new and/or weird parts.  For
example, how do you hold a 0201 in a clip made for 0805's?  How do you hold
a thumbwheel?!! How deep do you immerse some of these wonderfully designed
components that only have solderable surfaces on the vertical side of the
part!  GRRRRRR!  I think you get the picture.
  3) Champion using globule testing as opposed to a full solder bath dip.
  4) Act as resource for the IPC 5-23a Task Group (J-003) and IPC 5-23b Task
Group (J-002), if Dave Hillman and company are willing to have us.  :)
  5) Apply persuasion, if it becomes necessary, with regards to service as
the Multicore/Loctite/Henkel transition continues.

  Note, anyone is of course able to form a similar group for other wetting
balances and we aren't making any claims one way or the other here about the
equipment in question.

  So, if you are interested, phone or e-mail me.

  regards,
  Bev Christian
  Materials Engineering Lab Manager
  Research in Motion
  519-888-7465  x 2468