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Subject: Re: pre-stuffed PCBs (was: classic synth records)

From: "Michael Zacherl (aka TonTaub) " <egroups@...>
Date: 2006-01-25

John Laudicina wrote:
> not sure if I am 100%
> satisfied with the prestuffed board, when mine came
> allot of the resistors had one leg out of the holes.
> But I think this would have been a trip to put all of
> those resistors on the board.
>
> I would like to know how do they pre-stuff a board????
> is it done by hand??

That's done by a pretty big machine.

Quoting Paul:
> On a $180,000 machine (not one ∗I∗ own, though).
>
> http://www.uirmd.com/products/inserters.htm first item
> (6241 inserter/sequencer)
>
> Paul S.

I'm not sure what happend, maybe the resistors weren't secured properly
while being shipped?

Michael.