The horror of plastic 2: What happened to Sony

Apparently, the cause of the failures that lead to Sony camera being
kicked out of
China is that the CCDs in cameras were made with an epoxy instead of
ceramic.
The result of that and the heat and humidity and "applying too much
pressure" on the camera
bodies warps the CCDs resulting in scrambled images. Sony maintains
that it effects only a few
cameras, but they used this mfg technique from 2002 to 2004. Another
example of the misapplication of a "plastic" to manufacturing. Photo
Techniques magazine ran the story.

 

You're such a fucking idiot. CCDs are *semiconductor devices*. They're
made out of doped silicon.

 

Read the story if you've got a problem with it.
Semiconductors (you idiot) can be contained within plastic or ceramic.

 

Speak English, you dunderfuck. You claimed that they were making the CCDs
out of epoxy.

 

Dunderfuck! Hahahahahaha! Brilliant!

 

Maybe encapsulating?

 

http://www.imaging-resource.com/badccds.html

Several different explanations for this problem have been put forward
by various parties. Our own industry contacts indicated that the
problem was caused by the use of epoxy chip packages for the failing
sensor units, rather than more robust (and also much more expensive)
ceramic packages. The environmental sealing of epoxy circuit packaging
is generally not as good as that of ceramic packaging, and in the case
of the failing sensors appears to have let moisture enter the chip
cavity itself. This seemed to be a quite plausible explanation, but
subsequently, two other possible causes came to our attention.

 

So you changed your handle after I put you in a kill file? PLONK

 

LOL. Now, show me where it says anything about plastic. If you think
that "epoxy" is "plastic", then you are even more ignorant than I
thought. (And I thought that that was impossible).

 

It just proves that he really is bothered by people sticking him in
their kill file. It's good to know we can be a pain in his arse too.

 

I'm sure there's medical condition termanology for people who simply like to
put up pointless self-promoting crap on NGs which either nobody is
interested in or thinks is the rantings of a loon.

 

But someone here assured me epoxy (as used in carbon fibre) is
plastic!!!
-Rich

 

Just two different posting addresses, don't let it get you in a tizzy.
-Rich

 

Well, slap my face and brand me stupid. (Again!)
If epoxy isn't plastic, what is it?

 

Isn't epoxy a resin?

 

Sho-nuff is.

And ... what is resin? Chemically, resin is a synthetic organic polymer.
And ... what is plastic? Plastic is a synthetic material made from a
wide range of synthetic polymers.

 

CANT THIS IDIOT BE BANNED IN SOME WAY SO WE DONT HAVE TO PUT UP WITH HIS
DRIVEL?

 

Yes, you can create a message filter using his posting information. If
everyone would kill file him and/or ignore his posts he would leave here
from sheer boredom.

 

Firstly, it like saying that if water is used to make tea then water
_is_ tea. Makes no sense.

Secondly, carbon fiber (as combination of epoxy and the actual fiber)
parts are much stronger and much lighter and much more expensive than
same magnesium alloy parts due to technological difficulties associated
with mass-producing of carbon fiber parts (take a look at automotive
applications for example). You, one the other hand, are talking about
"plastics" as _cheaper_ alternative to metals. This automatically means
that your "plastics" cannot possibly include carbon fiber. Which brings
the question: why are you mentioning carbon fiber here? Do you think
that carbon fiber is an example of those cheap inferior "plastics" you
keep taking about? If so, you don't have a slightest clue then. No news
here though... But I still hope that you don't think that MontBlank
finishes their pens in carbon fiber "to reduce cost"...

 

Can't you fix your CapsLock key and buy a dictionary?