Apple Disk ][ X-Ray

[Grant Stockly]

>>>    It's extremely cool.  What's with you and the x-rays lately?  Did

After I scanned the IIe motherboard and people liked it, I did a few 
more.  When you have access to this equipement its easy to not appreciate 
it.  ; )

>>>you score an x-ray machine somewhere recently?  (I ask out of
>>>jealousy...I'd love a small x-ray setup [and the knowledge to use it]
>>>for soldering BGA components).

X-rays really won't help too much for soldering BGA devices.  With x-rays 
you can't tell the difference between 2 pieces of .25" steel stacked on 
each other or 1 piece of .5" steel when x-raying through the thickness.


>>He said in an earlier message, that it was at his place of
>>employment. :)
>
>   Oh, duh.  I missed that somehow. :-/

Although I did these at work on Saturday, it was for my own entertainment.  ; )
If they were to pay me to do x-rays it would probably be of a customer's 
sample.  ; )

>>He's aparently not as crazy as I am to have some x-ray gear at home
>>(then again, I've never used it partly because I don't know enough
>>about
>>dosages to determine what's safe, and how much to use to expose film
>>properly, etc).
>
>   What type of equipment do you have, if you don't mind my asking?

We manufacture a line of high resolution digital x-ray equipment.

The system I used is called the EnvisionScan NP (for no parallax).

Grant