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> Do you just heat the bottom and touch the top with some solder ?
> will that solder to the pad on the top ?
i think that might make the plastic look ugly. the pin to the bottom is
very narrow,
which will cause a long, slow heating on top.
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> I have found that you can easily seperate the pins from the plastic
> in the DIP package and then you can solder them as sperate pieces.
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you can buy them as single pins, or break them out of old cpu sockets....
> In this case however, I am making a board for a friend and he has not
> tried to solder a socket on the top. I am not sure that I would want
> a newbie to attempt lining up the pins of a DIP for soldering....
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You can use a ic to hold them. i have a "mockup ic" made of sheetmetal
which i think
is for that purpose, but i did never use it so far.
i think if you place the iron at one side of the pin, and apply solder
on the other side it would work.
I avoid this problem by no allowing top traces with socketed ICs.
(And i also use the cheap sockets which sit flat on the pcb)
of course you can apply solder paste and reflow it.
maybe you could wind thin solder around the pins and reflow that, crazy
enough to possibly work.
ST
> If I place and solder the pins for him, I'll take some pictures and
> post them to the group.
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> But, if anybody knows of a link that would show this, please let me
> know.
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> Dave
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