Soldering SMD's

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In a message dated 4/14/00 5:13:18 PM, you wrote:

<<Also, purists will (rightly) blanch, but I have
a professional EE friend who prototypes sm stuff
by just putting a blob of solder all along the side 
of a chip in one continuous line, then wicks the excess off.>>

Congratulations!  You are the first person to correctly use the word "blanch" 
on the Synth-DIY list.  (Unintentional vaguely-Asian-sounding misspellings of 
the word "branch", of course, do not count)  You don't win anything, but you 
do get bragging rights.

BTW, the "blob & wick" SMD solder technique is rather commonplace, and works 
great.

Michael Bacich