Hello all.  I have a PDR-1600 infrared solder station in house that will do
SMT of everything.  I'd be happy to stuff a PCB if all the parts are sent
with it.  There would be a charge of course, but i suspect that would be
negotiable on a case by case basis.  For that matter I also have in house a
circuit board plotter, miller, driller, etcher, and full electroplating tank
for plated through holes.  The only thing I can't do is soldermask and
silkscreen.  For that I'd have to lay out another $4,000 for the equipment
and it didn't make much sense for me to do it, I only prototype for
verification immediately before going to mass production in Hong Kong or
Taiwan.

Just a thought anyway...

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[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Tony Nixon
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 6:37 PM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [Fwd: $33 each] Advanced circuits PCB's


Roman Black wrote:
>
> Hi Steve, thanks for the info. I chased down the
> 2% silver paste because Alex G said it was the
> best. I got it from Farnell, about $25 US for a
> 25g syringe. I will try other options in the
> future. :o) I trusted Alex G as I knew he was
> doing some serious quantities with the SMT ovens.
> -Roman

Hi Roman,

I am finishing up a project I started awhile back that uses SM parts on
a small fiddly PCB. I'd be interested knowing how the oven and paste
work out. I might have to set up something like that myself. I takes me
about an hour to solder the parts on this small PCB and the result is
not very professional looking and is bound to lead to problems.

Is the Farnell Part number - 149-968
What oven brand do you use?
Does this method work on double sided SM components?

Sorry for the questions :-)

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Tony

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