From mahnaz at snf.stanford.edu Tue Jun 3 15:46:25 2003 From: mahnaz at snf.stanford.edu (Mahnaz) Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 15:46:25 -0700 Subject: Pressure plate Message-ID: <3EDD2541.357AC057@snf.stanford.edu> Hello all The pressure plate on the bonder broke last night. The incident happened trying to do very small pieces. The new part is on order and I will get notify how long will take for us to get one but usually is about two weeks. Mike has put the steel plate in so anodic bonding is out of picture or I have never performed it with steel plate. Any idea? I would worry if we use the steel plate, will it damage the graphite with the center point? Try to use the solid graphite and go low on the force. mahnaz From mahnaz at snf.stanford.edu Thu Jun 19 16:16:01 2003 From: mahnaz at snf.stanford.edu (Mahnaz) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 16:16:01 -0700 Subject: Change Message-ID: <3EF24431.CCEC743D@snf.stanford.edu> Hello all, Effective immediately these changes to be followed till I am back from vacation on Monday the 30th. I am open to discussion or any other way any one would suggest but till then we all need to follow this: As of yesterday we have put the pressure plate that was chipped and stressed back in the bonder so few of you could do anodic bonding. We will do ONLY anodic bonding with quartz plate, the plate is not in any shape to handle a lot of force and Remember this is a loaner and our pressure plate should arrive within one week. In general we should not use the quartz pressure plate for any higher force than 1500N so if we need to do direct bonding; we need to do it with steel plate and this change will be implemented to the procedure as soon as I am back till then a copy of this will be next to the bonder. How do we go about this: As of right now Mike Martinez is the only one who exchange these plate so we need to communicate among ourselves via the equipment email list. You need to request for the exchange of the pressure plate and Mike will make it happen. You need to consider that Mike leaves at 5 pm and he needs to this before that time and bonder needs to be at normal temperature. On Friday 20th in the afternoon the steel plate will be installed per Ammar's request and will be on till Monday or next request. mahnaz From AmritP at Bridgewave.com Thu Jun 26 15:28:41 2003 From: AmritP at Bridgewave.com (Amrit Panda) Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 15:28:41 -0700 Subject: steel plate Message-ID: I was going to use 1500 N of force, I will need the stainless steel plate to do so. Does anyone plan to use a different plate over the weekend (I noticed no body has signed up)? thanks Amrit. Amrit Panda Bridgewave Communications 3350 Thomas Road Santa Clara, CA 95054 Tel : 408-567-6920 Fax: 408-567-0775