So a couple of months ago when visiting my favorite metal scrapyard, I stumbled upon an Assembleon FCM P&P machine.
It was huge, somewhere about one and a half stationwagon, it had IIRC 16 P&P heads next to eachother and they could move in the Y direction only, X direction was the pcb transport I guess.
So my guess was that each head had a feeder and was only placing that single component while the PCB would travel in the X direction through the machine.
First I looked if there were any feeders present but those were gone or probably not supplied by the previous owner.
Since I am always thinking about some day building my own simple semi automatic P&P machine I asked the owners of the scrapyard if I could disassemble some parts that would be of my interest.
Unfortunately they first wanted to see if they could sell it as is.
If no buyer could be found they were going to disassemble it into parts and pieces.
Buying it myself was due to the lack of space in my garage and WAF no option.
So two times every month I visited the scrapyard and asked about the status, every time same answer, you have to be patient.
In the holidays they were closed and today when I returned the machine was gone!
I asked them if it was sold and they told me that they tore it down a month ago and sold the linear guidelines, electronics, valves and motors to some interested parties
.
Darnit I missed that one, and coming there for a couple of years this was the first machine I saw there so the chance of more of these opportunities is tiny.
Disapointed I went through the entire scrapyard looking if there were any leftbehinds for me and I did find a couple of P&P heads from the machine
They were in terrible condition, badly handled during disassembly, some very damaged, three heads have no nozzle on them, one has a bent tube so that can be scrapped, if only I was allowed to disassemble them myselves, oh well.
Still I hope to reuse them or salvage at least one from the ones I got, so I am looking for some schematics of this P&P head.
The manufacturer is Philips / Assembleon and the partnumber is PA 2760/61, any chance some reader of this forum has a schemtic of info on them?
Any information available would be very helpfull
I will tear one apart so that could hopefully also be some fun for the forum members, but since I do no video's (trust me you don't want to
) i will write and post pictures.
Here is the head in action