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

2006-01-25 by Michael Zacherl (aka TonTaub)

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.

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