<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I’m with Roman. Sure, I have hot tweezers, hot air, a pick and place machine….</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But I switched entirely to SMD about 10 years ago. Initially used 1206 passives. I will NEVER go back. It takes way more time to assemble through hole, with all the flipping the board over and parts falling out/sticking up too high. The PCBs are way more cramped and annoying to layout in TH. I build all of my prototypes with mostly 0603 passives by hand using nothing more than a fine tipped iron. Also, I use lead free, organic water clean flux. I wash the PCB with hot distilled water and the results look like a professional machine built PCB. I don’t mess with breadboards, I just go from a drawing to a PCB. When something needs to be reworked, I use wire-wrap wire and hang parts off the board. Then make the changes to the PCB file for the future. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Do a few projects with it, and you’ll never go back. I promise. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Mark</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 19, 2017, at 1:58 AM, David G Dixon <<a href="mailto:dixon@mail.ubc.ca" class="">dixon@mail.ubc.ca</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left" class=""><span class="312215223-18072017"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial" class="">SMD was developed for robots. I don't feel a need to
hone a skill to compete with a robot, thanks.</font></span></div><br class="">
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<div class="">On 18 Jul 2017, at 22:23, David G Dixon <<a href="mailto:dixon@mail.ubc.ca" class="">dixon@mail.ubc.ca</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left" class=""><span class="103502221-18072017"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial" class="">This post sums up why I simply will not do SMD by
hand. Not... worth... the... frustration.</font></span></div><br class="">
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