Re: pick 'n' place machines (was: OT 0805 resistor noise)

"John Larkin" <jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> See pics in abse.
>
> Cecily is assembling a board now, so I asked her about the flip thing.
> So she just hits the side of a resistor, in the feed bin, with the
> pickup tool, and it flips over; "just like playing tiddly-winks" she
> says.

Thanks, John. Great pictures. I'll show those to my current p&p machine
(aka my wife).

We do the same thing Cecily does, only with tweezers and a magnifying
headset. It is just like tiddlywinks. But I worry about the possibility of
damaging the part. And, as with tiddlywinks, if you're not careful the part
goes flying somewhere... that's a big problem if it's a capacitor, because
if it lands amidst a bin of other-valued capacitors there's no way to tell
it apart. We're very careful to only work with one value at a time, for
that reason, but it slows us down.


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