Steve,

It seems to have worked quite well. Thanks.

Richard

At 02:04 PM 8/15/01 -0400, you wrote:
> >>"are your operators consciencious about picking up/saving and
> >>hand placing dropped parts?"
>
>      Oh man....with all due respect, I'd surely not advise doing this. With
>the size
>of most SMT parts, the lack of marking, and the relatively cheap cost of
>most of them
>compared with the cost of diagnose> test> rework> retest, etc, I'd
>generally
>advise not ever doing this!
>
>      If things are falling off in such quantities so as to make it
>economically
>feasible to reuse the parts, then the SMT process engineer should
>investigate
>the root cause and fix it, rather than try and reuse fallout....
>
>      Rgds and good luck!
>      John
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