Hey Ya'll!

Naw, this ain't about Jeff Gordon or my man Dale Ernhart, it's about torque
drivers. We gotta new sales guy and he's brought us in some new business. Not
much board stuff (yet anyway) but mechanical assembly junk (ya take what ya
can get!). This first project is gonna be a hard drive burn-in rack...6-ft.
tall, 4-ft. wide, and 2-ft. deep...lotsa cable routing and screwing, plus the
frame assembly and whatnot.

My question is; if ya' had yer 'druthers what kinda' torque drivers would
ya'll buy? Pnuematic or electric? I've used mostly electric in my past, but I
ain't needed to screw much more than faceplates and small chassis
assemblies...stuff like that. They worked fine for that kinda work.

Cost-wise you can spend almost the same for either type. The one thing I did
notice 'bout the electric ones was that if ya' gotta  "butterfingers" for an
operator, or he/she is having one of those days where they're dropping
everything they pick-up, there's a good chance they'll break something on the
driver. Seems to me that pnuematic ones may be a little more robust....and
that's my big concern. Robustness...

The customer says that it should take two people close to two days to put one
rack together (that's a lotta screwin' around huh?). I'm gonna really look
closely at the whole deal just to make sure he's right...don't wanna get
burned on this.

Oh, as a side note, bought myself a digital camera this past weekend. Been
wanting one for a while...couldn't settle on which one I wanted. Wound-up
buying a Fujifilm MX-600Zoom, 1.5 megapixel one. Slick camera! 35mm quality
images! Used it yesterday to document some jumperwires for a MPI we do on one
of the PC104 cards we build here. Resolution was good enough to show the wire
that come off a 20-mil pitch lead....not too shabby!

-Steve Gregory-

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