Just another tape strip holder system
Posted: Tue May 22, 2018 2:33 pm
Hi all,
We all noticed that sticking those white paper and black plastic strip on your table with double sided tape isn't exactly the way to go. I tried these feeders:
http://liteplacer.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=399
They work pretty well, but still I have components jumping out of their pockets. Also there is only room for +/- 28 components for a 4mm pitch strip, not so much if you are planning to make a dozen PCB's or so.
Other issues:
- sometimes the protecting tape is under the holder and it breaks
- when removing this components are pulled out
- in my case, the spring wasn't strong enough to fix the tapes firmly.
- I prefer the exact same height as a PCB to improve accuracy
Also tried the screw-down type strip holders, but I found this also quite time consuming.
So I tried to design something different to make things easy. The concept is a simple holder without any moving parts. The grooves for the component tapes have angled sides, slightly smaller than the tapes. This way the tapes just stay in place. I decided to make them 200mm, for most strips 50 components. (I buy often in 50 or 100 pieces tapes) For the paper tapes, print this in black, for black plastic, use white or another color.
Paper tapes slides in very easy most of the time. Plastic tapes are sometimes hard to slide in, but I noticed that pressing them in from above and pulling them out when they are empty is also possible.
Hope this is useful for you. please feel free to try and improve!
Bas
We all noticed that sticking those white paper and black plastic strip on your table with double sided tape isn't exactly the way to go. I tried these feeders:
http://liteplacer.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=399
They work pretty well, but still I have components jumping out of their pockets. Also there is only room for +/- 28 components for a 4mm pitch strip, not so much if you are planning to make a dozen PCB's or so.
Other issues:
- sometimes the protecting tape is under the holder and it breaks
- when removing this components are pulled out
- in my case, the spring wasn't strong enough to fix the tapes firmly.
- I prefer the exact same height as a PCB to improve accuracy
Also tried the screw-down type strip holders, but I found this also quite time consuming.
So I tried to design something different to make things easy. The concept is a simple holder without any moving parts. The grooves for the component tapes have angled sides, slightly smaller than the tapes. This way the tapes just stay in place. I decided to make them 200mm, for most strips 50 components. (I buy often in 50 or 100 pieces tapes) For the paper tapes, print this in black, for black plastic, use white or another color.
Paper tapes slides in very easy most of the time. Plastic tapes are sometimes hard to slide in, but I noticed that pressing them in from above and pulling them out when they are empty is also possible.
Hope this is useful for you. please feel free to try and improve!
Bas