[sdiy] Solder Paste Masks?

[The Old Crow]

  Tom,

  I've done 0.5mm pitch parts with the drag-tip with great success.  In 
fact it does better for me than the reflow.

  For paste, I usually tape the stencil down, then use a flat edge to 
trowel paste across it from the middle to each side.  Pull the stencil, 
remove excess paste with a toothpick, then carefully place parts directly 
down onto pads without any sideways motion.

Crow
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On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Tom Arnold wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 06:36:58PM -0600, Ryan Williams wrote:
>
> The chips I need to solder are 52 pin .65mm pitch PQFPs.