Back from the auction
Back from the
auction today.
A big place -- they had two primary PCB lines with relatively new equipment. A screen printer for applying the solder paste, three pick and place stations (fun robots to watch work -- the individual components come on reels of tape and are fed through a cassette -- a robotic arm picks a given component off the tape, places it on the appropriate location on the board and moves on) and finally, a convection oven that melts the solder and fuses everything together.
They were doing work for a very high end audio company as well as a well known telecommunications manufacturer.
From what I heard, they simply powered down everything and walked away in last April. Competition with China I would guess...
I won a few bids -- a very nice binocular reflective microscope (Leica no less!) for $100, a toolbox with some miscellaneous hand tools including two that I really wanted for $65 and a decent bench meter.
Got up at 6AM today so it will be an early bedtime.
Next up on the calender is this one:
Lloyd Controls
Posted by DaveH at September 21, 2010 4:23 PM