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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: SMD's with heat slugs

From: "Stefan Trethan" <stefan_trethan@...>
Date: 2007-06-13

On 6/12/07, Brian <blue_eagle74@...> wrote:
> One thing you can do is drill holes and use small eyelets for via's.
> The only problem is the part will not sit flat on the board.
>

I doubt this would work at all with the small leadless QFN packages,
or at least soldering the other pins would be damn tricky then.
Possibly for larger parts with leads though...

ST