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A friend who's worked in the industry for a long time told me he'd
hired an immigrant asian woman to assemble SMT boards for him, based
on her reputation for speed. He said she used a small paintbrush to
put solder paste on each pad, then a bamboo stick (like those
potsticker skewers from the grocery store) with a bit of beeswax on
the end of it to pick up and hold the parts in place. Then a touch
with a small soldering iron.

Steve Greenfield