Go for it, Steve.
I am sure it will be fun.
What the heck, what can you loose? If anything, it will be fun and a great
experience.
Another thing. You already announce your "Disclaimer" right here in your
message! Smart move.
So, go for it and I am sure you'll be happy you did.
Gabe Cherian
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen R. Gregory <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, January 08, 1999 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: [TN] Assy: I CAN Rework this BGA Socket!
>In a message dated 1/8/99 6:22:39 AM Pacific Standard Time,
>[log in to unmask] writes:
>
><<
> In regard to putting it back, the nice designer didn't happen to
> leave you room to redrill the locating hole in the proper location? What
> do you mean you already cut off that useless locating tab?
>
> Mike McMonagle
> PCA Process Engineering Supervisor
> K*Tec Electronics
> 1111 Gillingham Lane
> Sugar Land, TX 77478
> (281) 243-5639 Phone
> (281) 243-5539 Fax
> [log in to unmask] >>
>
>Hi Mike!
>
>First, I just wanna' say how much I appreciate all the kind comments
everybody
>has posted...shucks...twern't, nothin' (face turning red). But Mike's
right,
>you do what you gotta do sometimes in the small shops 'cause you don't have
>much of choice, but that's what makes it interesting. On the same hand, I
>can't tell you how many times I've been so frustrated that I've felt like
>chucking it all and go flip burgers at McDonalds somewhere just to get away
>from it all. But luckily, the interesting times have outweighed the
>frustrations (..so far, anyways...hehehe)
>
>And I can't tell you how much I've learned from everybody in this group,
the
>only reason I think I can do what I do is because I bounce things off of
you
>guys, and try to do it in a way that might make ya' chuckle a bit. You all
>have set me straight a bunch of times and for that, I want to say thanks.
>
>But back to how I'm gonna' go about putting this beast back on, the idea
was
>given to me by one of you guys, (See what I mean? This list is GREAT!) It
was
>from a gentleman named Roger Miller with Lockheed Martin out in New Jersey.
>What I'm gonna do is drill a hole in the socket body with a .050" shift in
the
>Y-axis from the current locating pins position (that's the pin pitch with
this
>socket, and it was soldered one row off), put a new pin in the hole and
then
>cut the old pin off...Roger made it so simple for me, I don't know if I
would
>have thought of it or not, thanks a bunch Roger!
>
>One last thing, Paul Klasek said something in his post yesterday that I
just
>wanna bounce off you guys, 'member when he said something to Jack Crawford
>about that legends of the TechNet thing at the printed circuits expo? Well,
>Jack has asked me if I wanted to participate. I've been thinking about
it...I
>mean this is something that's supposed to fun and interesting, right? If I
>tell Jack I'll do it, I'm not gonna get ripped to shreds am I? I'll tell
ya'
>all right up front I'm no genius, and I don't have a B.A., PHD, IOU, or
any
>of that stuff, I just do things the best way I know how with what I got,
and
>that's it. But to me, it does sound kinda' fun as long as people take me
for
>what I am...and I'm just a regular ol' manufacturing guy like ya'll.
>
>Thanks!!
>
>-Steve Gregory-
>
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