[sdiy] Hand soldering TQFP packages

[Seb Francis]

Hi,

Does anyone on the list have any experience hand soldering TQFP 
packages?  I'm wondering what the minimum pitch is that's not too tricky 
to solder.  Mostly devices seem to be available with a 0.8mm lead pitch 
which I think will be ok to hand solder.  But some newer devices are 
only available with a 0.5mm lead pitch.  I'm thinking this is going to 
be much more tricky to solder.

Anyone tried hand-soldering these 0.5mm pitch SMT packages?

Seb