Hi everyone, has anyone built a home made
CNC pick and place machine to do SMD work?

I'm thinking of doing one with a couple of
old matrix printer chassis, they have sliders,
belts and stepper motors ready and will do good
speeds with 0.1mm repeatability easily.

I have an idea for a new product that will
require lots of 0805 SMD parts and I like the
thought of using a machine to do glue spots,
then pick and place, then once parts are glued
I can just hold them into a solder cauldron
(with bamboo tongs!) to solder them in one go.

The whole operation would be almost totally
automated. Maybe it could be automated later
by attaching the solder cualdron to the process?
Any thoughts??
:o)
-Roman

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