Steve, This is fine as long as you're not the one installing the parts. Tiny fingers are needed to hold components with short leads. If you are machine inserting doesn't the system start with components on tape and reel and therefore you will have to set your cut length to real short? Do you need the leads clinched? Just one large fingered engineer's thoughts. Regards, Phil Nutting -----Original Message----- From: Stephen R. Gregory [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 8:37 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [TN] fractured joints With all the discussion about fractured joints from trimming, I think the thing to do to completely eliminate the problem, is to prep the components before stuffing and waving them, so that there will be no trimming required... -Steve Gregory- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt delivery of Technet send the following message: SET Technet NOMAIL Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > E-mail Archives Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt delivery of Technet send the following message: SET Technet NOMAIL Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > E-mail Archives Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------