<div dir="auto">Me too Mike, but Dave actually etches home made PCBs!</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue 17 May 2022 at 13:59 Mike Bryant <<a href="mailto:mbryant@futurehorizons.com">mbryant@futurehorizons.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">I used to just solder thru hole PCBs from the top first - the solder leeches through happily enough. It's only axial capacitors and some sockets that can't be done this way.<br>
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From: Synth-diy [mailto:<a href="mailto:synth-diy-bounces@synth-diy.org" target="_blank">synth-diy-bounces@synth-diy.org</a>] On Behalf Of David G Dixon via Synth-diy<br>
Sent: 17 May 2022 19:13<br>
To: 'mark verbos'; 'Roman Sowa'<br>
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Subject: Re: [sdiy] [OT] LM13700 spotted in commercial product of big Manufacturer<br>
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Mark Verbos said:<br>
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"I'm with Roman, I think building a big through hole board belongs in one of the circles of hell. All that flipping over and having parts fall out, clipping leads, burning my fingers as I try to get the parts tight to the board, etc."<br>
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You are doing it wrong. I never "flip the board over" -- I solder all parts that have equal height at the same time, and place them against a small piece of wood before setting the whole thing down. It's all about order of<br>
operations: <br>
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1) jumper wires<br>
2) diodes<br>
3) resistors<br>
4) IC sockets<br>
5) ceramic caps<br>
6) film caps<br>
7) TO-92 packages<br>
8) electrolytics<br>
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If, in that rare circumstance, I need to flip the board over before all the joints are soldered, then I simply pick up the piece of wood and invert the board into my other hand -- nothing ever falls out.<br>
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Also, if I do drop a part on the floor (a very common occurrence), then I can generally find it and pick it back up. Not so with an SMD part -- once it hits the floor, it is in the Delta quadrant, sinking in Captain Janeway's coffee.<br>
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