Steve, TEKA (www.tekais.com) also makes PC104s with solder bearing leads. And Zephyrtronics (www.zeph.com) makes a hot air bath machine specifically designed for soldering the little buggers. The founder of Zephyrtronics, David Jacks, gave a talk and hands-on equipment demo at our SMTA Houston chapter meeting last year. It really works, no fuss, no muss. Not too expensive either, and will keep Trang & Tran working on more productive things (and not coming after you with hot irons, hehehe).... P.S. - Don't forget that data you were going to send me, I still need it. Mike McMonagle PCA Process Engineering Supervisor K*Tec Electronics 1111 Gillingham Lane Sugar Land, TX 77478 (281) 243-5639 Phone (281) 243-5539 Fax [log in to unmask] > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen R. Gregory [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 1999 4:16 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [TN] Weird Gerber Problem-FIXED, Now: Waving Chip > Networks... > > Hi Richard! > > Well, I got some gerbers now that have the QFP in it like it was > supposed > to, don't really have an answer as to why it wasn't in there before. > In the > email with the correct gerbers attached to it, all the customer said > was that > he was at a loss why it didn't have the QFP there. He said that when > he worked > on it yesterday it was there on his 'pooter monitor, and when I got > the files, > it wasn't. No reason why though... > > I've got just one more question for ya'll and it has to do with > this > board (I forgot to ask earlier). The board has chip resistor networks > on it, > and they're on the bottom (11 of them). I've printed paste and > reflowed chip > networks before, but never have waved them...how do they do? Plus, on > this > board they've been laid-out where the pads are parallel to the board > travel...there's also a 25-mil pitch 28-pin SOIC as well, but it's > laid out > where the pads are perpendicular to board travel the way it's supposed > to be, > but still...I don't have a warm and fuzzy about waving it. > > I have a bone stock Soltec Prisma with a foam fluxer...nothing > fancy. > This is one of those PC104 boards that I talked about a month or so > ago. I'd > rather double reflow than mess with glue, but T & T (Trang and Tran) > will be > hand soldering 104-pins on those connectors. If I don't wave, they'll > be > looking at another 100 or so pins to hand solder because the board has > 2 other > right-angle connectors, a 16-pin dip IC, and a couple of headers that > goes in > it. > > It's no big deal with these 10 proto boards, I'm probably gonna > go ahead > and hand-solder the PTH...I'm just thinking ahead what I should down > the road > for production. > > As always, Thanking you in advance!! > > -Steve Gregory- > > ################################################################ > TechNet E-Mail Forum provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV > 1.8c > ################################################################ > To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with > following text in the body: > To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE TechNet <your full name> > To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF TechNet > ################################################################ > Please visit IPC's web site (http://www.ipc.org) "On-Line Services" > section for additional information. > For technical support contact Hugo Scaramuzza at [log in to unmask] or > 847-509-9700 ext.312 > ################################################################ ################################################################ TechNet E-Mail Forum provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ################################################################ To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE TechNet <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF TechNet ################################################################ Please visit IPC's web site (http://www.ipc.org) "On-Line Services" section for additional information. For technical support contact Hugo Scaramuzza at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.312 ################################################################