In a message dated 12/14/99 3:45:36 PM Central Standard Time,
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> YA STEVE WHERE THE HECK ARE YOU! We miss your humorous posts (and > the
technical ones too)!
>
> Brian
>
> Hinners Hans Civ WRALC/LYPME wrote:
>
> > Hi JF and All,
> >
> > First we had (resist) strippers, then we had latex balloons and now
> > masochists! My base's internet monitors must adore my e-mail. (But it's
> > okay, this is considered mission essential communication. Well, maybe not
> > this one.)
> >
> > To answer your question, Tech Net is populated by engineers,
> > managers/directors, technicians, consultants, equipment & chemistry folks
> > plus a few who are suppose to be in 'retirement'. There are designers,
> > bare board manufacturers, assembly and IPC people here. Except for the
> > occasional hiccup it is a very stable list. I don't would want to live
> > without it.
> >
> > One day we should figure out how many years of experience we have
> > represented within this virtual community - 100? 250? 500 years? Just
don't
> > let Steve G. do the counting. (Sorry Steve I couldn't resist besides
you've
> > been pretty quite lately.)
> >
> > Welcome.
> >
> > Hans
In a message dated 12/12/99 3:18:43 PM Central Standard Time,
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> Hey Steve, get out of the closet please, it's getting damn right down boring
> here on Net ...i said please , ok ?
>
> I better dig out some joke files myself , getting desperate
>
> paul
Hi ya'll!
Yeah, I know I've been pretty quiet lately...busier than a one-legged man
inna butt kickin' contest. What with getting new pick-n-place equipment, and
a (newer) wave solder machine that I had to disassemble down to the frame,
tilt it on it's side, bring it into the building and re-assemble it, I've
been kinda busy.
I've been a little frustrated with some of the decisions that have been made
by the higher-ups concerning all this new equipment. All this extra work that
I've been doing makes no sense...but ya' gots to do what's dictated to you,
no matter if it's right or wrong...one day someone may see the light...
To that theme, here's a list of things to tell you for sure if you're
Oklahoma:
1. When you have to debate for three days that you're NOT supposed to wave
solder
press-fit connectors that have nickel plated pins, you know you're in
Oklahoma.
2. When you have to debate (again for three days) that a solder joint that
meets IPC-
610B class-II criteria is not rejectable just because it "looks funny",
you know
you're in Oklahoma.
3. When you get a machine delivered to you that has to sit outside for a few
days
(until you can disassemble it to get it into the building) and you
promptly have
tornado warnings (sirens and everything! November no less!) You
definately know
you're in Oklahoma!
4. When you hear parts called "Turtles", and "Orangies" (Translation: SMT
GAsFET's and MIL spec SMT Tantalum capacitors), you know you're in
Oklahoma.
5. When you have a facilities person who thinks he can torch a solder-pot out
with an
acetylene cutting torch tip instead of using a rosebud tip, you know
you're in
Oklahoma.
6. If you see that all your air lines are cast iron, and see that all the
water separators
have fluid in them resembling "Earl Grey Tea", you know you're in
Oklahoma.
I could go on and on, but ya'll catch my drift...no wonder I've been busy,
eh? Sometimes I wonder if I'll ever do any good here...I think a lot of us
have been in that position once or twice. Hell, I'm just a floor rat, a cog
inna' big ol' machine is how I feel sometimes...what do I know? "Got to move
those refrigerators and color TV's..." in the words of "Dire Straits" from
their song; "Money for Nothing"...oh well.
So Jean, who is here? Guys like me who have been doing this stuff for
12-years. There's other people on this list that could engineer circles
around me, but that's why this list is so good. I Started out as a SMT
equipment technition and rose to the level of a SMT process engineer. That's
what I interviewed here for anyway, and was hired as, but now I find myself
immersed in wave solder...makes perfect sense to me!?!? My problem is that I
know, or have seen a little bit about most everything (enough to be
dangerous..hehehe) in the assembly process, and I get jerked around, can't
focus like I want and need to...but that's the price I pay (I guess) for not
saying no. It's hard to say no when there isn't anybody else around that has
a clue...
Enough of my rant! Jean, just know there's a wealth of knowledge on this
list...and there maybe a glitch or two once inna' while...suspect any emails
you see from a "Rod Semens"...he likes to flame and nothing else.
As Hans said; "Welcome"
-Steve Gregory-
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