[sdiy] solder for SMD

[jays at aracnet.com]

I use all those when doing SMDs.

What I find key is having a smaller gauge of solder. 0.02 or 0.015 but 0.015 works best for me. You'll find that SMT doesn't take as much solder as thru hole.  What this does is allow you to feed less solder to the solder joint. So with my old shaky hands I lot of movement puts less solder in the joint.

Jay S.

rdrake wrote:

> i'm finally gonna dip my toe in the shallow end of the surface mount pool (1206 SMD bypass caps on some ken stone boards).  they're still pretty chunky and seem easy enough to just hold in place w/ a toothpick while i solder... but what kind of solder?  i have rosin core, no-clean, and water clean on hand...
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