Re: SMT rework shops near Sacramento or Bay Area?

John Larkin wrote:
On Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:58:41 -0800, Joerg
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John Larkin wrote:
On Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:43:22 -0800, Joerg
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Jim Thompson wrote:
On Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:56:27 GMT, Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Many of us design folks don't have all the fine pitch gear to lift a super-dense quad pack and solder on a new one. Same goes for some of my clients, mostly the start-ups. So, are there any service providers that can do these jobs on a prototype board or two? The usual fabs often don't like such small jobs although some would reluctantly do it for a good customer.

Sacramento would be great, or Bay Area if it has to be. There's always Fedex, so in a pinch even father locations could work.
Got any snow yet?

Terrible weather here, overcast skies, temperature barely touching
70°F, and it may rain ;-)

Not yet, but it's rolling in. Yesterday was the worst, lots of uprooted trees, one of them split a house in half. A neighbor was retrieving her trash can before it became airborne and a big apple tree crashed down right behind her.

This is how it looks like around here:
http://cbs13.com/local/severe.weather.sacramento.2.622287.html
San Francisco looks like a war zone, a couple thousand trees down,
flooding, a fair amount of property damage, kind of a junior Katrina.
Lots of power failures, especially down the peninsula.

Similar here. The force was quite amazing. We have a fairly heavy wooden bench near the pool. Tied everything down except for that one because it would never move. Wrong! It lifted off almost vertically and then crashed into a flower bed.

Haven't seen any major damage around our house but couldn't check the roof, too windy. Luckily we had replaced it with steel, else we wouldn't have a roof now. Oh well, since the insurance has a $5k deductible we'll have to fix whatever broke by ourselves. That bench might mutate into firewood soon.


Winds yesterday spiked at 70 mph. It blew down a fence in our back
yard and sucked a skylight off the roof. I went up there, found it
nearby, and nailed it back down; only one layer of glass was crazed,
so it's still watertight. Damn near blew me off the roof, and the
raindrops were like ice bullets.

Don't do that, I know a guy who did slide off a roof and (by a miracle) lived to tell about it. This neighbor with the uprooted tree also had the whole east side fence blown over. A few years ago it was restored but they "re-used" the old posts. That's what broke it.


We have a break, but more weather is coming. The ground here saturates
fast, so mudslides and floods are likely.

And some more trees to come down because now their roots are located in mushy soil that doesn't hold anything.


ftp://66.117.156.8/Storm1.jpg

That looks like a picture-perfect paradise compared to here ;-)


We have a good assembly/rework house we use on the peninsula; I'll
look up the name on Monday. Sometimes we do work for *them*.

Yes, please do, I'd appreciate that (others probably, too).



These guys do good assembly, despite the ghastly web site,

http://www.mentzerelectronics.com/index.htm


Thanks, John. Always good to know, especially if someone has used them. I'll keep that on file. The web site is ok, they simply list what they can do. Wish there was a regular email contact other than webmaster on there.

I have used these folks in the past and was very pleased:

http://wdburch.com/


but I don't think they do rework.


Support during the prototype phase is a real problem these days. Burch did it for us but that might be because we were regular customers. They even did some "hairball lash-ups" for us when we needed something pretty much right now.

I believe there would be a market for a technician if he or she would equip themselves with nice solder/desolder equipment. Sometimes it can be bought on the cheap when a company goes belly up. Like when BenQ went under in Europe. The list from the liquidator read like a list of fine wines. You name it, they had it.

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Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/
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