After staring into the scope of a wire bonding machine for 14 hours at the time. You be able to wire bond by hand too off course in your dreams " nightmares if you will ". > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen R. Gregory [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 2:38 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [TN] Wire bonding... > > Hi ya'll... > > I gotta silly question, can wire bonding be done by hand? We've got a > sales > guy that's trying to drum up some business for us, call me last week and > asked if we had the capability to do wire bonding here. I told him no-way, > don't have a wire bonding machine here, and that we weren't really set-up > to > do something like that here anyway. > > Well he calls again today, and said that he understands that we don't have > an > automated wire bonder, but the potential customer said that the volume > that > they were looking at, it should be something that we could do by hand. I > said; "WHAT? Wire bond by hand? NO-WAY!" I think our sales guy understood > "manual" wire bonding, to mean "by hand" like you would hand solder a > component. I did a NET search and found a lot of manual wire bonding > stations > but they were pretty sophisticated looking machines...nothing about wire > bonding by "hand" though. Sorry about the dumb question... > > -Steve Gregory- > > ############################################################## > TechNet Mail List 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 web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for > additional > information. > If you need assistance - contact Gayatri Sardeshpande at [log in to unmask] or > 847-509-9700 ext.5365 > ############################################################## ############################################################## TechNet Mail List 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 web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information. If you need assistance - contact Gayatri Sardeshpande at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5365 ##############################################################