Charles, To quote an unnamed Mountain Dew drinking Icon of our industry, it depends.If you live in a perfect world and have no variables,controllable or not, than hot bar soldering could work as a prototype assembly tool. If you have high reliability requirements, I would not use it as a production tool. Dewey > -----Original Message----- > From: Charles Caswell [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 12:22 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [TN] hot bar soldering > > I have been asked to look into hot bar soldering. I have a surface mount > connector that cannot go through the reflow oven. The assembly has fiber > optic cables that can't go over 90C. The some of the pads are directly > attached to the ground plane and I am having trouble getting coverage. The > customer suggested hot bar. I'm just wondering how effective this would be > as > well as what equipment costs. > > > Charles Caswell > The Big Kahuna > > --------------------------------------------------- > Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e > 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 or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to > [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) > To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to > [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest > Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives > Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 > for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or > 847-509-9700 ext.5315 > ----------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e 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 or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 -----------------------------------------------------