yep, had us going in circles for a couple weeks last spring on a 1+6+1 uVia
phone board.  At first they accused the pwb of causing it -- NOT!   I
forwarded your post to the Mfg Eng who worked through it.  Feel free to
contact me offline if you don't hear from him.

Dwight Mattix
(858) 658-2522

  At 09:48 AM 10/5/99 -0500, jim wrote:
>Ken,
>
>Give me a buzz off line. I think I saw something like this at Qualcomm.
>972-494-1911
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ken Patel <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Monday, October 04, 1999 8:08 PM
>Subject: [TN] Looking for Help to prevent Tilting of EMI shield
>
>
>>Guys,
>>We are currently using a EMI shield which is dual in nature i.e. perimeter
>>is connected like SMT and leads are soldered like PTH. This shield is being
>>hand placed onto the board before reflow where perimeter is getting
>>connected to the board while the leads are soldered when the board goes to
>>wave soldering process.
>>
>>Our problem is that this part is getting tilted easily and to prevent that
>I
>>am looking for some kind of solution- Does anyone has tried out the kinked
>>leads to provide snap fit so that it won't tilt during the reflow
>operation.
>>Any other potential solution to stop the tilt besides some kind of weight.
>>Does anyone ordered die and formed the leads and resolved the tilt problem?
>>
>>My part is 1.5" X 2.5" with .5" height. Leads are .5" apart.
>>
>>
>>re,
>>ken patel
>>
>>______________________________________________________
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