[sdiy] More SMT project pictures

[harry]

"Brousseau, Paul E (Paul)" wrote:

> Yet another dumb question (not that the first was dumb-- I had no idea!)...  If there aren't any thru-holes, then how does one get the component to stay in place while soldering?
>

Easy... Jedi mind power.

The opposite of where Darth Vader throws the boxes at Luke Skywalker,
duing the light-saber duel....  In that case... the boxes did not want to move...

In the SMT case... the parts do not want to stay still....     :^P

(on the solder side of commercial boards... they use a tiny drop of glue. I just
hold them down with a tiny object - maybe the dull edge of the x-acto knife...
while I solder one side. Then I solder the other side...)

H^) harry  (Lord of 'Vader and Associates')