I may have missed some of the responses, but I agree with Steve unless you have light weight components that will "float" during wave soldering. In that case, we used to use a solder-cut-solder operation. Basically, after lead cutting with rotary cutters we would reflow the solder joints. There are several ways this can be done, but the easiest way we had for our CFM operation was to have a second wave solder machine inline after cutting, but we did not add solder. We simply turned the bottom heaters on the old wave solder machine up hot enough to reflow the solder joints. Ed Valentine Electronics Manufacturing Solutions 8612 Mourning Dove Road, Raleigh, NC 27615 Phone: (919) 270-5145, Fax: (919) 847-9971 Email: [log in to unmask] Website: http://www.ems-consulting.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen R. Gregory" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 8:36 AM 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------