[sdiy] SMD rework equipment

[Gordonjcp]

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 04:20:53PM -0700, Jason Proctor wrote:
> dear sdiy,
> 
> although i'm mostly a software guy, i've done a fair amount of building
> modular synth modules and music gear, and my record for stuff working after
> i've built it is pretty good. so i trust myself with thru-hole assembly and
> maintenance etc.
> 
> however, the little company for which i work is now planning a hardware
> product, which is currently in prototype. we'd like to be able to make
> small fixes (reattach cable to barely visible resistor, etc) without
> bouncing back to our EMS, which costs money and time.
> 
> question - what kind of gear would an EMS have to make SMD rework "easy" ?
> is such gear affordable for small operations such as ours? is it just a
> case of a big magnifying glass and a narrow solder point, or is there more
> to it?

Binocular microscope is great, cheapy USB camera microscope is perfectly okay (we use them at work when I take *my* binocular microscope home), decent non-magnetic tweezers and a good soldering iron with not too small a point.

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