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Hi all,

I'm having a little trouble and I'm hoping someone here might be able to
help.

Several of my pcb's are double sided - it's taken some practice aligning
both sides for proper etching, but I'm getting the hang of it, but I've run
into another problem....

Let's say you have a part - an IC socket, some traces run from the top pads,
and some traces run from the bottom pads and some run from both.

Normally, the hole would be thruplated creating a connection between both
sides of the pad, but I don't have any kind of thruplating equipment. So,
How do you all compensate for this? Solder doesn't seem to want to flow
thru the hole and I've found myself removing sockets trying to figure out
how to make connections on the top pads to the bottom where one solders.

Now on places where the chip is installed permanently, I'm just soldering
both top and bottom pads, so no direct connection between top and bottom is
required.

Any ideas on how to solve this, without purchasing more chemicals or
equipment, would be most appreciated.

-Tony