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Vitaliy,

Madell Technology's pick & place equipment looks good for low end.

But you will still need to:
make/use stencils for solder paste
vapor/hot air soldering
And
washing.

That is a $50k price tag at least.

Even surplus it is more than half.

Ray


On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:32:49 -0700, Vitaliy wrote:
>=A0Ray Newman wrote:
>>=A0Still I should save up to buy my own SMT pick &=A0place.
>=A0There has to be some surplus equipment for all the failed USA
>=A0companies. Wish I knew where to look.<
>
>=A0I've been looking on eBay and Craigslist, there is lots of stuff
>=A0available. We have products that are starting to take too much time
>=A0to assemble by hand, but are too expensive to outsource. The
>=A0trouble is, I've never worked for a contract manufacturer (missed
>=A0my chance at 16 -- declined a job offer), and don't really know
>=A0what to look for.
>
>=A0What would be a good "starter" pick-and-place machine?
>
>=A0Vitaliy




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