[sdiy] SMT to thru hole adaptors.

[Thomas]

If you are speaking of simple sot SMD's you can simply cut one pad in 
two peaces as two pins of a sot-8 package or something alike fit on one 
pad.  That is if the pads are rectangular. Most of the boards i find in 
here(Belgium) are. That's what I normally do. Sticking smd's on these 
perfboards make nifty looking projects :-)  my opinion.

regards,
Thomas

Grant Richter wrote:

> Look for Surfboards. They are single chip SMT boards that you can mix  
> with thru hole using point to point wiring.
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> Stick them to your perf board with double sided tape.
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> On Jan 16, 2007, at 2:55 PM, Dave Kendall wrote:
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>> Hi.
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>> Most of my ICs are regular thru-hole, but I recently scored some  
>> useful SMT
>> parts on evilBay very cheaply.
>> I like the "undo-ability" of perfboard, and wonder if there's any DIY
>> solutions anyone's used successfully, to allow the use of regular  IC 
>> sockets
>> for SMT ICs. The first thought is to very carefully etch tiny  
>> boards, then
>> drill some holes for exactly the right sort of pins, and so on.....
>> OK for a one-off I guess, but anyone got a better idea?
>> I may need quite a few (16+) for one current project/dream/fun  waste of
>> time... :-).
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Dave
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