[sdiy] SMT in a toaster oven

[mark verbos]

On Feb 26, 2010, at 5:58 PM, mark verbos wrote:
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>> How many parts are on that board? I find that hand soldering
>> SMT with tweezers & a fine tip is slightly faster than through-hole  
>> (less board flipping, no clipping), but I typically don't have more  
>> than 50-60 parts on a board. If it's taking you 20 hours to solder  
>> then you must have some serious number of parts.
>
> 80 discrete transistors, 9 chips, hundreds of 1206 resistors and  
> capacitors. I have been using through hole diodes, because I didn't  
> see a SMT one that looked appealing. I don't want to use one as big  
> as the transistors. There are 120 diodes on this board, so it would  
> help (just cutting the leads is a PITA). What do you use?
>
>


Looks like this SOD-123 package would suit me. Vishay makes a 1N4148  
in that package.

Mark