Leon,
Besides that when I learned this method they called it Zip Soldering
:) If you stop adding solder 2 pins before the end, there is usually
plenty of excess on the soldering iron to solder the last few pins.
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:45 PM, DJ Delorie <dj@...> wrote:
>
> "leon Heller" <leon355@...> writes:
>> I use plenty of gel flux and rarely get any bridging.
>
> IIRC the only bridging I get is on the last two pins of a "swipe"
> because there's nothing after the last pin to suck the solder blob
> along. I guess with practice I'll get the blob size correct ;-)
>
>
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