BYC Café

[DobieLover]

This is flow soldering basically yes?

No. Electroless Nickel Immersion Gold: ENIG.
Electroless Nickel Electroless Palladium Immersion Gold: ENEPIG.
Immersion Silver.
We ran silver this morning and have the first basket of ENEPIG on the line now.

 

[Shadrach]

No. Electroless Nickel Immersion Gold: ENIG.
Electroless Nickel Electroless Palladium Immersion Gold: ENEPIG.
Immersion Silver.
We ran silver this morning and have the first basket of ENEPIG on the line now.

Read a bit about it, never done it. What sort of electronics are the boards for?

 

[DobieLover]

Read a bit about it, never done it. What sort of electronics are the boards for?

Implantables (defribulators, pace makers), cell phone components, servers, fighter planes, LED components, etc. Once upon a time, we had a lot of customers.

 

[DobieLover]

To remind you all the reason why I am acting as a gold line operator is because our company has been sold and will be shut down.
Employees are leaving at a steady rate and there was no one left to get the product through the line.
The following is from a fellow engineer. He likes to write poems. This choked me up as it is so true...

how can I say goodbye, I’ve been here most of my life
learned how to be an engineer and met my beautiful wife

how can I say goodbye, to the familiar I’ve known every day
to warm faces that greeted me and have helped in so many ways

with the “good old days” of IBM, the layoffs also first came
then the mismanagement of EIT and its legacy of shame

but our spirit could not be crushed and our abilities again shown
from the ashes of one-day work weeks we re-ascended the throne

but now the “Dream Team” is disbanded and black veiled
drowning in an air of insufficiency, as if we had finally failed

we did NOT falter! our IBM yields were incrediblely high
but in the end we were abandoned without a good reason why

how can I say goodbye – well only with eyes filled with tears
I can show you scars, but by far, many more blessings these years

how can I say goodbye? – I can’t, for you are all a part of me
you have always been, and forever are, my dear family​

 

[Shadrach]

To remind you all the reason why I am acting as a gold line operator is because our company has been sold and will be shut down.
Employees are leaving at a steady rate and there was no one left to get the product through the line.
The following is from a fellow engineer. He likes to write poems. This choked me up as it is so true...

how can I say goodbye, I’ve been here most of my life
learned how to be an engineer and met my beautiful wife

how can I say goodbye, to the familiar I’ve known every day
to warm faces that greeted me and have helped in so many ways

with the “good old days” of IBM, the layoffs also first came
then the mismanagement of EIT and its legacy of shame

but our spirit could not be crushed and our abilities again shown
from the ashes of one-day work weeks we re-ascended the throne

but now the “Dream Team” is disbanded and black veiled
drowning in an air of insufficiency, as if we had finally failed

we did NOT falter! our IBM yields were incrediblely high
but in the end we were abandoned without a good reason why

how can I say goodbye – well only with eyes filled with tears
I can show you scars, but by far, many more blessings these years

how can I say goodbye? – I can’t, for you are all a part of me
you have always been, and forever are, my dear family​

Unfortunately skill at whatever level doesn't seem to count for much these days.
I understand the argument that technology is progressing at such a pace the many of the skilled jobs will be the province of machines in the future. But the seeming wholesale abandonment of the teaching of practical tasks, is very short sighted imo.

I can remember the distress that people felt when Thatcher decided she would shut the coal industry down in the UK, mainly because they had a very strong union and a very outspoken representative. The economic reasons for the pit closures didn't stand up to scrutiny when the hype died down.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Oh my I have never been to Starsucks - is that a bad thing?

Not you no fan of coffee although they have allot of teas been out all day

 

[sourland]

Not you no fan of coffee although they have allot of teas been out all day

They used to have some pretty good scones.

 

[pennyJo1960]

That's why we go to the state fair scone Fischer scones been making them since like 1930 something just love them we will take off early in the morning

 

[sourland]

@penny1960 have a good time, and eat a blueberry scone for me.

 

[pennyJo1960]

oh so that gets me a few more will do sour