Homebrew PCBs

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Dylan Smith <dyls@...> wrote:
> El 14/02/13 21:53, scubadogct escribió:
>> I have soldered surface mount before but only when there is a resist layer present.  At the moment I do not have access to any resist.
>>
> It's not really a problem.

Seconded.  For fine pitch, flux helps a lot.

> I've hand soldered 0.4mm pitch LQFPs on a home made board without solder

If you get a board made commercially with a 0.4mm pitch footprint,
often the soldermask will not survive anyway.

  http://i.imgur.com/n4z5PCP.jpg

> I've found using some kapton tape to hold the part in position,

A mini-gardening fork also works well :-)

  http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-N1k6OM8C8cs/Te8whMyqdQI/AAAAAAAAACQ/wPkrIs_FRcM/s1600/IMG_6288r.JPG

Mitch.