I mentioned that in my original reply to Rich, if it makes sense then you can
simply trim to length and drop the parts in and not worry about it.  In our
case there are ~140 DIP ICs that get placed into the board x 8 seconds a part
for our CS400s = almost 19 min vs 2.5 min for DIP insertion.  I don't think
we're doing 16.5 min of trimming.  Also our CS400s are the bottleneck and
hand stuffing that many parts probably wouldn't be a good idea.  But we may
be able to back off the DIP clinch even farther to a 20 - 30 degree bend ....
and not have parts fall/bounce out during processing.

MIKE

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