New Products
versatile process delivers a high efficiency side of the board.
www.goepel.com drained into an ingot mold and ready
in application and operation throughout for immediate reuse. With the Amistar
the entire supply chain.
www.enthone.com Amistar Automation unveils Automation Soldabac Solder Recovery Sys-
eco-friendly solder recovery system
tem, removing dross from the solder bath
A device that can reclaim and recycle at
is quicker and easier, storage and waste
least fifty percent of usable solder alloy
disposal costs are reduced, and solder
from wave solder dross is now available
purchases are cut in half.
from Amistar Automation. Light-weight,
www.amistarautomation.com
portable, and easy to use, the Amistar
Automation Soldabac solder recovery Economical electrically
system takes dross created by wave solder conductive silver ink
machines and heats it inside the unit’s Creative Materials, Inc, (CMI) has devel-
eighteen pound solder pot to separate oped an economical silver conductive ink,
Virtual industries introduces new
the oxide. The reclaimed solder is then 125-10, with typical sheet resistivity of 15
low-cost vacuum-tweezer tool
Virtual Industries, Inc., introduced the
self-contained manually operated PEN-
VAC PRO-SERIES vacuum tweezer for
handling SMD packages, optics or other
small parts during assembly. The tweezer
has no vacuum hoses to get in the way and
no batteries to replace. The PEN-VAC®
PRO-SERIES vacuum tweezer is sold with
four cups and probes. Pick-up tip sizes are
1/8” (3.18 mm), 1/4” (6.35 mm) and 3/8”
(9.53 mm) vacuum cups on bent probes
and one straight probe with a 1/4” (6.35
mm) diameter vacuum cup. Prices start at
US $29.93 with quantities of 25 or more
(order number V8910-9GR-B).
www.vacuumtweezer.com
New kit checks out process
cleanliness & residue
The new Practical Components B-52
CRET (Cleanliness & Residue Evaluation
Test) kit is designed to help determine the
ionic cleanliness of a customer’s manufac-
turing process. The test boards and compo-
nents follow guidelines associated with the
IPC-B-52 Test Vehicle. The Practical B-52
CRET test vehicle is divided into four pri-
mary segments: the main SIR test board,
the Ion Chromatography (IC) test coupon,
the solder mask adhesion coupons and the
SIR mini-coupons.
www.practicalcomponents.com
SCANFLEX® extends to
universal fixtures
GOEPEL electronic launched a series of
universal board fixtures for the revolution-
ary boundary scan hardware platform
SCANFLEX®. The new generation of
fixtures is called SCANFLEX Board Grab-
ber® and is comprised of three models
in different sizes. The SCANFLEX Board
Grabber® was specifically designed for
the support of laboratory verification
and programming of prototypes. It is also
applicable at repair stations. Due to the
integrated pivoting mechanism it is easily
possible to reach the top side and bottom
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