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Exactly what I do. The iron doesn't sit on any pin of a chip for more than
two seconds, and then I give that chip 20 seconds to cool while I do
something else.

-----Original Message-----
From: J. Larry Hendry [mailto:jlarryh@...]
Sent:Friday, 09 March, 2001 1:35 PM
To:motm@yahoogroups.com
Subject:Re: [motm] Sockets vs. soldering ICs directly to PCB?


But, I always solder the two corner pins and let the chip
cool wheil I go to 2 corner pins as I insert the next chip until
I have them ALL on the PCB. Then I go back and solder two
more pins on each one, rotating through so each chip gets
some "heat rest" as I make my rounds. I do this until I have all
pins soldered.