[sdiy] SDIY -vs RoHS - more

[Adam Schabtach]

That sounds pretty easy, actually. Compared to bending and clipping the
leads of a through-hole resistor, it's probably faster to do SMT resistors
once you get the hang of it. 

Okay, I'm starting to feel better about all this. It seems like the
stumbling block is the problem of mixing leaded and lead-free components in
the same project, which AFAICT is impossible to avoid until everything
changes to lead-free.

--Adam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Tribbeck [mailto:Jason.Tribbeck at argogroup.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 8:12 AM
> To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Subject: RE: [sdiy] SDIY -vs RoHS - more
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > But I'm looking at the resistors and caps on a PCI card that
> > happens to be lying around, and I'm wondering how one solders
> > those by hand. They're so teeny; how do you hold them in
> > place while soldering them?
> 
> I was lucky enough to convince the company I work for (a software
> company) that we needed some hardware, and decided to use their money to
> practive SMT soldering - including 0805 resistors.
> 
> It's not too bad, actually. What I did was tin one of the pads, then,
> with a small pair of needle-nose pliers, held the resistor on to it, and
> heated that side up, causing it to stick to that side. It was then
> simply a matter of soldering the other side. The only mistake I made was
> choosing the wrong resistor value - twice the value as it happened,
> which meant I stacked two on top of each other :)
> 
> What I didn't do, though, was practice with lead-free solder (I've got
> piles of the 'old' stuff around).
> --
> Jason Tribbeck
> 
>