Well, $3657 puts pick-n-place squarely within the realm of DIY! My wife uses a $8,500+ embroidery sewing machine and I would not feel any guilt getting myself a pick-n-place next Christmas! Seriously though, I haven’t been shopping for any soldering or repair/replace equipment in almost 15 years and have just recently looked at what’s available out there ’cause I feel like I’m missing some of the newer SMD tools. Here is my impression: Thank you, thank you, thank you hard working people of the People’s Republic of China!!! For less than $3000 I can now fully equip my home lab with everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) needed for building anew or repairing any piece of electronics, SMD or through-hole: soldering station, reflow oven, vacuum tools, PCB holders, IR preheaters etc. Turns out, for $3657 more I can start making small batches, too. This is mind blowing and liberating. 15 years ago I would have to pay (and I never would for personal use for sure) more than I would spend on putting my kids through college. And I would have not even matched my wife’s sewing machine budget yet! 🙂
This is good new, Alan, thanks for posting this.
Merry Christmas!
Hello Everyone. This is Donald from this machine factory. I will be so gald to supply any information you need about our machine.Please send me a mail if you want to know further information about the machine. donald@neodentech.com
I just find out a link that can watch the video http://www.youtube.com/user/NeoDentech .The machines we have bought sevral sets from the manufacture in China,they are perfect products for SMT!!!
December 24th, 2012
Not $269, $3657. Two heads, that many feeders, and that placement rate for under $300? C’mon. Even $3600 is a good deal.
December 24th, 2012
The price is at least 22800 RMB (Chinese Yuan), which is more like USD $3650… still a really interesting piece of kit, though.
December 24th, 2012
22800.00 Chinese Yuan equals 3658.49 US Dollar
Other than that, its a pretty spiffy machine.
December 24th, 2012
I think more like $3500
The price is in RMB, not Yen
December 25th, 2012
Can’t get the videos to play, any hints?
December 25th, 2012
Hi Steve,
I just tried them and thought the same thing. It did start after about a minute of buffering though.
You can see all of the videos here directly (also very slow though).
http://www.tudou.com/home/SMThz/
December 25th, 2012
Well, $3657 puts pick-n-place squarely within the realm of DIY! My wife uses a $8,500+ embroidery sewing machine and I would not feel any guilt getting myself a pick-n-place next Christmas! Seriously though, I haven’t been shopping for any soldering or repair/replace equipment in almost 15 years and have just recently looked at what’s available out there ’cause I feel like I’m missing some of the newer SMD tools. Here is my impression: Thank you, thank you, thank you hard working people of the People’s Republic of China!!! For less than $3000 I can now fully equip my home lab with everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) needed for building anew or repairing any piece of electronics, SMD or through-hole: soldering station, reflow oven, vacuum tools, PCB holders, IR preheaters etc. Turns out, for $3657 more I can start making small batches, too. This is mind blowing and liberating. 15 years ago I would have to pay (and I never would for personal use for sure) more than I would spend on putting my kids through college. And I would have not even matched my wife’s sewing machine budget yet! 🙂
This is good new, Alan, thanks for posting this.
Merry Christmas!
December 25th, 2012
Wow Polytech, that must be one heck of a sewing machine! Sounds like you will have a sweet setup.
March 27th, 2013
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July 19th, 2013
HI
IM AMIR
I WANT TO KNOW MORE INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR MACHINE
I WANT TO KNOW HOW CAN I BUY MACHINE AND THE PRICE OF IT AT RMB CURRENCY
August 15th, 2013
where can you purchase these pick and place machines
August 15th, 2013
Good day every one. This is the machine from our factory.If you need any information about the machine,you can send me a mail. donald@neodentech.com
August 19th, 2013
Hello Everyone. This is Donald from this machine factory. I will be so gald to supply any information you need about our machine.Please send me a mail if you want to know further information about the machine. donald@neodentech.com
November 21st, 2013
I just find out a link that can watch the video http://www.youtube.com/user/NeoDentech .The machines we have bought sevral sets from the manufacture in China,they are perfect products for SMT!!!
December 11th, 2013
Dear sir,
Please quote the machine
October 27th, 2014
I need information pick and place.