Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Overheard at the office #22

An obviously confused suit was giving other confused suits a tour of the facility.


Suit: And over here you'll see the <<looks down at paper>> conformal coating booth... where we ummm... coat things... conformally.


Background: I was working as a bench technician and circuit boards came in by the hundred from assembly. I would test them all, repair the ones that didn't work, and then take them to coating once I had a box of working boards. Conformal coating is a thin protective coating that is sprayed over a circuit board to protect the board, components, and solder from oxidation and other enemies of circuitry. There was a large ventilated booth and pretty much an airbrush kit. I don't know if it's still done by hand, but that's how it was done then.

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