I've been looking into buying a used 10-15 year old pick and place=20
system with feeders.

I can buy a high performance and easy to use old machine for half the=20
cost of a new, low end, hard to use system... so that's what I plan on=20
doing.  I don't really need anything better than 0402 and a good enough=20
vision system to do 0.8mm pitch BGAs at the moment... so the vintage I'm=20
looking at seems perfect.

I'm familiar enough with these machines to at least think I have some=20
ideas how to make the part feeding significantly more efficient (at=20
least for low volume, high part swap situations). I'd like to put some=20
time into trying to create innovative component delivery systems.=20
(Custom feeders, trays, etc)

What would really help for that would be a base machine that is either=20
open enough in specification or hackable enough to heavily modify. I'd=20
hate to have to throw out all the electronics and rebuild the machine in=20
a way I can use and maintain.


Does anyone know of a specific brand that might fit what I'm looking=20
for?  IE: Juki, Universal, Europlacer, etc?


Darron

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