Assembled in Mexico

[CDD]

Hi to all!

When I was in technical school my teacher always told us that whenever we encounter any electronics device to be repair that is assembled in Mexico to always start re soldering the components because of the poor solder between components and board.

For my limited experience i can say it's mostly true.

Any thoughts on this.

[Danga]

Re: Assembled in Mexico

Did it apply to the SMD soldering too?

[CDD]

Re: Assembled in Mexico

He never mention SMD.

What he did mention was all the boards done in Mexico with wave soldering.

PC Board Assembly - Wave Soldering Machine

My teacher was a 6'2 250lbs US NAVY technician (there is no such thing ex-navy).

If he was wrong I was not the one to correct him

[Kiriakos GR]

Re: Assembled in Mexico

I will disagree regarding such issues, Mexico was the first country that the American industry use before starting to use China as main source.

Even HP have a factory in Mexico, and they were making refurbished PDA, I got one of them before six years, still goes strong.

SONY assembled in Mexico their famous G-420 CRT monitor, my G-420 was assembled in UK. ( European stock)

Many significant brands did use Mexico, but if you do shopping for cheap stuff then this is another story.

[ivtec]

Re: Assembled in Mexico

I will disagree regarding such issues, Mexico was the first country that the American industry use before starting to use China as main source.

Even HP have a factory in Mexico, and they were making refurbished PDA, I got one of them before six years, still goes strong.

SONY assembled in Mexico their famous G-420 CRT monitor, my G-420 was assembled in UK. ( European stock)

Many significant brands did use Mexico, but if you do shopping for cheap stuff then this is another story.

I have to agree with you on this one, my might fine Sony Hd Trinitron 36" that i don't trade for this crappy tech. was assembled in Mexico and is about 12 years and i never had problems with solder joints,the only problems was the MCZ300 chips on the power sup

[budm]

Re: Assembled in Mexico

Lots of Samsung TVs are assembled in MEXICO.
http://s807.photobucket.com/user/bud...tml?sort=3&o=8

INSIGNIA:
http://s807.photobucket.com/user/bud...ml?sort=3&o=25

SHARP:
http://s807.photobucket.com/user/bud...ml?sort=3&o=17

SONY:
http://s807.photobucket.com/user/bud...tml?sort=3&o=8

http://s807.photobucket.com/user/bud...ml?sort=3&o=45

TOSHIBA:
http://s807.photobucket.com/user/bud...ml?sort=3&o=13

VIZIO:
http://s807.photobucket.com/user/bud...ml?sort=3&o=26