There are several brands out there.
Prefer the ones with more pins per inch and automated setting.
Definately cheaper than having nests made if there is product mix. faster
than arranging manual pins and less likly to be set up wrong than manual
pins. Too easy for hard pin to chip a component.
Several caveats:
A nest may provide superior support if there is enough area to touch PCB.
If there is a small range in PCB width than the bar location does not
change much.
Ran 5 inch and 10 inch wide PCB's and needed to add and remove bars to
suppport PCB. There has to be enough room that the supports don't get
jammed when the narrow PCB's are run. The wider PCB's may need more support.
Must maintain toooling. Rubber tips fall off, pins stick and fail to
support PCB or drop out of way, tips get dirty and transfer solder paste,
repostioning not done for PCB width changes. Same as the rest of the line,
don't take care of it and it will bite you.
Solder can get on the pins and transfer to the bottom side of PCB. Care in
housekeeping and awarness of any pin in paste locations are necessary.
Spent time chasing random solder balls on bottom side, learned to keep
close eye on tooling. The rubber pins that touch PCB are more difficult to
clean than the manual support pins. The bottom side had been though AOI and
x-ray. The problem can show up after the line is changed over after a test
failure. The same can happen on other types of tooling, this style had a
higher incidence of this problem.
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 7:46 AM, Bush, Brien <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Ernesto,
>
> We use Ovation Grid Lock system. Very quick and easy to use and maintain.
> We have been using them on
>
> All our Dek machines for the past 10-15 years now. We have not seen any
> major problems with them.
> http://www.ibesmt.com/GridLock-Board-Support/SMT_Accessories/1378/SMT.aspx
>
> I understand your pain all too well of manually locating pins.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Brien Bush
>
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> Hello TechNet Gurus,
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> I would like to ask your recommendation or any thoughts about your
> experience with pneumatically operated board support tooling for solder
> paste printers.
>
>
>
> We build double sided densely populated boards and the set-up time for the
> 2nd pass takes longer time.
>
> We use the regular pin supports and manually locate them where there are
> blank spaces between the components.
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>
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> The price is expensive for 5 older MPM Accuflex printers and investing
> more capital is certainly a question to buy-off these support tooling.
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> Thank you in advance.
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>
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> Best regards,
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> Ernesto
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