Manual bonding is used by a rather large number of hybrid shops.  A couple
of places you could try to get a used machine would be Luna Technical at
(272)242-4867, MC Consulting at (719)481-9542, and The Alternative at
(909)873-8273.  I'm pretty sure that any of these firms could also set you
up with the necessary training and technical assistance to get things going.
Todd


        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Stephen R. Gregory [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
        Sent:   Friday, October 08, 1999 1:38 PM
        To:     [log in to unmask]
        Subject:        [TN] Wire bonding...

        Hi ya'll...

        I gotta silly question, can wire bonding be done by hand? We've got
a sales
        guy that's trying to drum up some business for us, call me last week
and
        asked if we had the capability to do wire bonding here. I told him
no-way,
        don't have a wire bonding machine here, and that we weren't really
set-up to
        do something like that here anyway.

        Well he calls again today, and said that he understands that we
don't have an
        automated wire bonder, but the potential customer said that the
volume that
        they were looking at, it should be something that we could do by
hand. I
        said; "WHAT? Wire bond by hand? NO-WAY!" I think our sales guy
understood
        "manual" wire bonding, to mean "by hand" like you would hand solder
a
        component. I did a NET search and found a lot of manual wire bonding
stations
        but they were pretty sophisticated looking machines...nothing about
wire
        bonding by "hand" though. Sorry about the dumb question...

        -Steve Gregory-

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