Hi there Dave,

we place spring loaded pins with our placement machines all the time with pretty good
results.  Our designers used a pin with a reasonable sized flange on it, and we bored
out one of our placement machine nozzles so that it sucks the pins up into the nozzle
and stops on the flange.  We also had to mill out a deeper groove in one of our feeders
so that it could handle the height of the pin in the reel, but it goes pretty well.

The only major pitfall we have found is if the reel is mishandled, and the pins fall
over inside the packaging - we are trying to get the suppliers to change the dimensions
of the packaging to minimise this.

Best Regards,

Chris Murphy,
Tait Electronics

David Curtis wrote:

> On many boards we build we place  small pins for test purposes, can't be
> done in wave so we do them in smt. These guys consume a major portion of our
> cycle time so we would like to place these with a dedicated machine. Our
> current pick and place machine leaves half as many of these pins on the
> floor than it places on the board.  Does anyone know of a better system to
> pick and place something like this? About 1 cm long with a nub 1 third the
> way down.
>
> Any comments would be apprciated.
>
> Dave
>
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