Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #09255
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Bob Shannon bshannon@tiac.net
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 10:05:02 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: cutting LEDs
Ahhh, your not clamping the LED down.
Viberation is killing it, breaking that fine gold bonding wire (usually at the
chip
surface).
Bumper314@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 1/15/00 7:34:10 PM Mountain Standard Time,
> davidperry@geocities.com writes:
>
> > you can use toothpaste (i think) to polish the face, there are also special
> > polishes for plastic that help with this.
>
> i have also heard the toothpaste thing...tried it...still not as clear as i
> would like it to be...I mainly have problems with cutting. about 1 out of 5
> survives
>
> Steve
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