Hi Steve,

Smaller resistors would certainly be the answer, but in the near term have
you tried auto inserting in pairs, skipping every third slot instead of
every other slot?  They should "lean" enough to allow this and reduce the
manual placement bottleneck by about another 50%.

Good Luck,
Bruce Misner

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> From:         Stephen R. Gregory[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
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> Subject:      [TN] Small body diameter axial resistors...
>
> Hi ya'll!
>
> I think I might have talked about this in the past, but anyway, I've got
> this
> board here that has oh, about 375-390 axial parts in it. I auto-insert a
> good
> portion of it, but I can't do it all. That's because the resistors that
> are
> used are 1/2 watt resistors, and there are many places on the board where
> the
> resistors are layed out on .100" centers next to each other,
> unfortunately,
> the body diameters are larger than .100"...they range from .103-.107". Go
> to:
>
> http://www.driveway.com/share?sid=e25a88c4.8e904&name=Pictures
>
> Look at respacing.jpg, and respacing2.jpg, and you'll see what I'm dealing
> with. Right now, I insert every other one at the places that have the
> resistors "brick-walled" like that, and then hand-stuff them at our
> CS400's.
> But I'm looking to try and auto-insert more...the CS400's are stuffing 272
> parts now and it's a big bottleneck.
>
> I was told that there maybe some 1/2 watt resistors out there with smaller
> body diameters. Philips carry some that they call "Space Misers" and they
> are
> smaller, but they only go up to 1/3 watt...
>
> Do any of ya'll know where I might find some skinny 1/2 watt resistors?
>
> TIA
>
> -Steve Gregory-
>
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