AVR-Chat

On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 12:53:21AM -0500, Dave VanHorn wrote:

> Works fine for me.. You do have to get used to working with it.  A
> pointed stick works nicely as a holddown tool. I've tried metal
> tools, but they all have problems. They either get soldered into the
> circuit, or they end up slightly magnetic, and pick up the parts
> when you want them to not do that.  Magnetizing a wooden stick would
> be a neat trick.

I find my fingernail works best :-)

     http://www.bdmicro.com/smt/

Check the bit on soldering 0603 caps about halfway down the page which
make the 1206's look like cinder blocks - they're the smallest part on
my boards and I can do them faster than I can through-hole parts - no
flipping the board over nor clipping leads.  I've soldered literally
thousands like this.  This really isn't hard.  0.025" solder is really
a bit large, though, for the smaller parts, even for the relatively
large 1206, I use 0.015" solder and pull out the 0.025" for the
through-hole pin headers and screw terminals.

-Brian
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Brian Dean
BDMICRO - ATmega128 Based MAVRIC Controllers
http://www.bdmicro.com/