SMD Tape Extenders 12mm belts, 7x500mm, 500 pieces per tube

TAPE EXTENDERS OR LEADER TAPE TAPE EXTENDERS: One of the biggest problems is the waste of components on a reel that don’t have a leader at the beginning of the SMD reel. The Tape Extenders are used for the partial reels that don’t have a leader. The Tape Extender adds an additional 500mm of tape as a leader. They feed into your SMT feeder as a piece of covertape. The Tape Extenders reduce the loss of components when you have no leader tape to work with.

When your order is for 200 boards from your contract manufacturer, you can provide them with 200 components on each reel and ONLY 200. Our customers tell us that it is not that the components are so expensive, it’s just that when the customer sends 200 components on a reel without a leader, the first few components are wasted on the pick and place machine for starting the feeder. With the Tape Extenders, you have no waste. You can receive the partial reels with a Tape Extender and feed the machine without any waste. The Tape Splicer Kit comes with a box of assorted Tape Extenders for 8mm, 12mm, 16mm, 24m and 32-44mm Carrier Tapes.