Abstract: A placement apparatus for co-planar placement of a tool on a component carrier using a rotational placement arm in which the tool is moved between the base or loading position of the placement arm and the near-placement position substantially on a circular path, and in which the tool is moved linearly between the near-placement position and the placement position.

Abstract: A placement apparatus for co-planar placement of electronic components on a component carrier using a rotational placement arm in which the electronic component is moved between the base or loading position of the placement arm and the near-placement position substantially on a circular path, and in which the component is moved linearly between the near-placement position and the placement position.

Abstract: By providing a multi-faced, heat conducting element incorporating projecting heat insulating material in juxtaposed, spaced relationship to the heat conducting element, a unique, inexpensive, readily produced solder pot is achieved for use in removing and replacing multi-pinned components mounted on printed circuit boards. In the preferred embodiment, the multi-faced heat conducting element incorporates a plurality of different faces, with each face corresponding to the pin configuration of a particular multi-pinned component, thereby achieving a single solder pot which can be employed for a plurality of different multi-pinned components. Furthermore, the preferred embodiment incorporates the heat insulating material formed as side panels, mounted at each end of the multi-faced element, with the heat insulating material possessing overall dimensions which expand upon heating to become greater than the outer dimensions of the multi-faced element.

Abstract: A wire storage and wrapping tool for making wrapped wire connections on wrapping posts incorporates a portable housing having a front end and a rear end, a hollow open-ended sleeve shaft extending through the housing and rotatably mounted therein with its open ends exposed, and a drive motor mounted in the housing and connected to rotate the sleeve shaft. A hollow wrapping bit is removably engaged in the front end of the sleeve shaft with a wrapping post-engaging axial bore and an eccentric axial wire-delivery portal with an insulation-slitting axial edge. A hollow wire storage container encloses an extended length of wire wound in a succession of uniform layers concentric about a central axis, and has a wire exit portal disengageably secured to the rear open end of the sleeve shaft.