I would like to express my deepest and most saddistic thoughts for the person who came up with 0201 chip components. Life is not hard enough without some small-brained person coming along to take the 'smaller-is better' thing to new and extreme depths. This person (or persons--hey, why not let it be a post-communist conspiracy?) deserves to have his entire inventory lost in his eye as a technician sneezes across the bench from him. This sounds like something that Dr. Seuss could write a story about: 'Horton Hears a Placement Machine', wherein the protagonist finds a whole contract manufacturer on the head of a pin, only to lose it in a gust of hot air from a marketing guy. Perhaps, we could design a component that needs only one fine of -325+500 solder paste, to be placed by trained stepto-coccus viruses and reflowed with the same hot air as mentioned above. Perhaps we shouldn't place anything at all, say we did and go home. Those darn little chips just take up so much space anyway, just like the people who designed them. (Please excuse the above rant. It's Monday, this was the first TechNet email I opened, and by Jove, this was a @#%& good target. BTW, I have no experience with 0201's. HAve a nice day.) ---------- From: TechNet-request To: technet Subject: 0201 components Date: Friday, April 04, 1997 4:59PM Does anyone out there have any experience in placing 0201 chip components. In particular I need information on placement , stencil issues , paste issues etc. Does the quality of the board need to be improved from class 2 to class 3. Any input would be appreciated. Regards. Gerard O'Brien *************************************************************************** * TechNet mail list is provided as a service by IPC using SmartList v3.05 * *************************************************************************** * To subscribe/unsubscribe send a message <to: [log in to unmask]> * * with <subject: subscribe/unsubscribe> and no text in the body. * *************************************************************************** * If you are having a problem with the IPC TechNet forum please contact * * Dmitriy Sklyar at 847-509-9700 ext. 311 or email at [log in to unmask] * *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** * TechNet mail list is provided as a service by IPC using SmartList v3.05 * *************************************************************************** * To subscribe/unsubscribe send a message <to: [log in to unmask]> * * with <subject: subscribe/unsubscribe> and no text in the body. * *************************************************************************** * If you are having a problem with the IPC TechNet forum please contact * * Dmitriy Sklyar at 847-509-9700 ext. 311 or email at [log in to unmask] * ***************************************************************************