Steve, It seems to have worked quite well. Thanks. Richard At 02:04 PM 8/15/01 -0400, you wrote: > >>"are your operators consciencious about picking up/saving and > >>hand placing dropped parts?" > > Oh man....with all due respect, I'd surely not advise doing this. With >the size >of most SMT parts, the lack of marking, and the relatively cheap cost of >most of them >compared with the cost of diagnose> test> rework> retest, etc, I'd >generally >advise not ever doing this! > > If things are falling off in such quantities so as to make it >economically >feasible to reuse the parts, then the SMT process engineer should >investigate >the root cause and fix it, rather than try and reuse fallout.... > > Rgds and good luck! > John >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=--=-=-=-=-= >John Brewer >Square D Component Engineering >Raleigh NC > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >------ >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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------