There is one company called UNITECH MIYACHI who are manufacturers of HOT bar soldering Machine Details of the company can be got through INTERNE Shankar Rao India "Gervascio, Thomas" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Well I'll date myself. Back in the late 1980's in a former life we worked developing flex soldering and doing large QFPs ( a ceramic 256 I/) 0.5 mm pitch- the part was about 3" square) with a Hughes hot bar soldering system and a Farco F-120 hot bar system (actually an outer lead bonder). The Farco (Swiss company) worked much better- I think they're still in business. Tom -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Raye Rivera Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 4:15 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [TN] Hot bar soldering recommendations Hi all, Can anyone recommend hot bar soldering equipment for joining a flex circuit to a PCB? Thanks! Raye Rivera --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 15.0 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 847-615-7100 ext.2815 ----------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 15.0 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 847-615-7100 ext.2815 ----------------------------------------------------- K. Shankar Rao --------------------------------- 5, 50, 500, 5000 - Store N number of mails in your inbox. Click here. --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 15.0 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 847-615-7100 ext.2815 -----------------------------------------------------