Perhaps the customer is spec'ing the wrong
connector. Why go thru all the added effort and
cost (parts, tolerancing, manufacturing, design
work, ect) of spec'ing a press-fit conn and then
soldering it, when a std less expensive connector
might do?
Ron.
At 11:45 AM 10/27/02 -0600, you wrote:
No you are not an idiot. I had this same problem
with our QE several years ago. We had been buying a
backplane with press fit conn. When we changed
board shops they did not do the press fits so I had
to do it here. Naturally the boards were rejected
because they were not soldered. The inspectors and
QE had never looked at the purchased boards and did
not know what a press fit was. It took a week to
finally get the point across. Now your problem
sounds similar. You have a customer who does not
know what they are asking for. If they want these
things soldered they need to SPECIFY that they want
it. Like my example of soldering wire wrap. Who
would ever think a customer would want wire wraps
soldered unless they SPECIFY this on the drawing?
Same goes for the press fit.
Charles Caswell
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Gregory [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 7:13 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [TN] Press fit connectors...
Yeah Ryan,
I did. But now it's not an internal thing, we sent
some boards to a customer that had the connectors
pressed-in as designed, but there's been someone
there that has made a HUGE deal that we were so
incompetent to actually send them assemblies that
didn't have soldered connections.
I know that there are press-fit connectors that do
have solderable leads, but I've always learned, and
understood, that if it's a press-fit, that's
exactly what it is...
I've also thought about the technology and thought
that if you soldered a press-fit connector, it
really wasn't buying you anything, and could
actually cause more problems.
All I know is we have a customer that thinks I'm a
idiot (I was the one that told production to press
the connector in and not solder it), and I was just
trying to see if I was the only one who thought
that press-fit connectors shouldn't be soldered...
Oh well, when you are working for a EMS company,
you ARE all about customer satisfaction...BTW,
there wasn't anything documented to solder these
press-fit connectors.
-Steve "the idiot" Gregory-
Steve, didn't you already ask this question when
you first hired on with this company and saw people
soldering the press fit connectors? Are they still
giving you grief for suggesting not to solder the
press fit connectors?
Ryan Grant
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