Blundell Blog

The extensive Blundell range of convection reflow ovens has been further expanded with the addition of the Technoprint Mistral 260 and Mistral 260 forced air  reflow ovens. Technoprint’s Quartz/hot air HA-06 batch oven is also now in the Blundell reflow line-up, together with their range of low cost manual stencil printers.

We at Blundell now offer the widest and most diverse mix of reflow ovens available anywhere from leading manufacturers such as Ersa, Iemme, TWS and Technoprint. Whatever your oven needs we have a model to suit the budget and the application and the backup service to go with it.

For more information call us on 02476 210270 or visit our Website www.blundell.co.uk.

Following our recent appointment as sole UK distributors for Dage, we now have an in-house X-Ray facility for inspecting printed circuit boards and electronic assemblies.

Our newly installed Dage XD7500NT is a state-of-the -art Real time Digital X-Ray inspection machine giving  2.0 mega pixel images and up to 7,400 times magnification. It will also provide 70 degree isocentric oblique views at high magnification and provides sharp, clear images with up to 65,000 greyscale levels.  

It is renowned by users as the easiest to use X-Ray system available, with no complicated joystick controls. It has comprehensive data logging and reporting facilities. We will be pleased to offer X-Ray services to electronic manufacturers as well as offering to install and support similar systems for our customers.

PLEASE CALL 02476 210270 FOR MORE INFORMATION

I’ve just got back from spending a couple of days looking around the SMT Exhibition at Nuremburg, Germany. The show was slightly smaller than usual and visitor numbers were down, but most companies put on a good show and it’s an easy exhibition to get around. It was a good chance to catch up with our main principals such as Ersa, Ebso, Dage, iPulse etc and to talk with old industry friends and associates.

Although they are suffering along with everybody else from recession, in Germany they seem to be able to retain a positive outlook and they all seem very bullish about a recovery in the second half of the year. With Productronica only 6 months away, let’s hope they are right. 

My discussions with industry contacts about the National Electronics Week show at Earls Court seem to confirm our negative views on that show. Very few production equipment companies are going to be exhibiting and there does not seem to be a last minute rush for stands. Looking at the floor plan, only half the stands have been sold, and there are only 5 weeks to go.

We are proud to have been the first European iPulse distributor to launch the new iPulse M8 SMT mounter. The M8 is a fully configurable flexible pick and place machine with an ultra-slim 1 metre wide profile, giving exceptional productivity per square metre of floorspace.

With 80 feeder positions, the M8 can be used as a stand alone machine or paired up with another M8 or a higher feeder count iPulse machine such as the M4 to provide a high capacity, ultra flexible component mounting line.

The new interchangeable feeder bank and matrix tray feeder system allows both the feeder bank and the tray feeder to be poitioned on either side of the machine, giving a further boost to line optimisation and machine up time.

The M8 is available with either 8 placement heads (19,000 cph IPC) or 4 heads (14,000 cph IPC) and will handle board sizes of 460 x 450mm or 510 x 450mm.

For more information call Nick Clarke on 07786 150864 or visit our Website www.blundell.co.uk