A nut eh?
Surely a self tapping screw, driven home using the theta drive on the pick
and place head would be more efficient?
Regards
Eric Dawson

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Earl Moon [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 1:28 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: [TN] VERY INTERESTING, TO ME, BGA/CSP STUFF
>
> Werner,
>
> Thanks for the numbering info. Thanks as well for the rest. Your following
> deserves a reply:
>
> 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.
>
> Well, it's up to me to show them the light and error of their ways. So
> far,
> so good.
>
> 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.
>
> I hesitate to say that idea was brought up in a meeting yesterday. Unreal?
>
> Earl
>
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