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Subject: RE: [motm] Re: Slipping away

From: "Wheaton, Simon" <simon.wheaton@...>
Date: 2006-10-05

[motm] Re: Slipping away
Solder paste and a soldering station that has a hot air pencil makes your SMT soldering a lot easier.
 
We were taught hand soldering SMT first, then using solder paste and a hot air pencil, hand soldering was like an excercise in tourture compared to the hot air pencil.
 
Simon
Canberra
AUSTRALIA

From: ivancu@...
Sent: Thu 5/10/2006 3:07 AM

>No offense intended, but IMNSHO SMT is really not a good reason to
give up

>on DIY. Have you actually tried it? I have; it's not
that hard. It's
>actually easier to solder an SMT IC than a through-hole
DIP.
>There is a good introduction to hand-soldered SMT here:
>
href="http://www.bdmicro.com/smt/">http://www.bdmicro.com/smt/

Just looked at that tutorial.  I can only imagine after a long day of
working in front of the computer, with blurry eyes, and after a
Quad-Shot Venti Soy Latte, trying to solder SMT.  It would be a pretty
good comedy routine watching all those little chips bouncing on the PCB
like a flea circus.  I think Kathryn Hepburn could probably do a better
job of position an SMT capacitor on a PCB than me at 2AM.

Ivan

 

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