Homebrew PCBs

Why not use a socket? Available from many supply houses. Digikey,
Jameco, etc.
Rick

sirish minapalli wrote:

>  Hello everybody...
>
> I hope somebody could solve my problem with regards to soldering and
> desolderin a transistor. i'm currently workin on building a
> s-parameter test board for measuring the s-parameters of transistor.
> the plan is to hav a single board and make all students put their
> transistors on the board, measure s-parameters and then take it off.
> at first i thought solderin wud b good...but wats happening is while
> desoldering atleast one of the pins is getting broken . and by the
> time i melt the solder on all the 4 pads having 4 pins in order to
> remove the transistor, they become cold and i'm not able to take the
> transistor off...So i was wondering there shud b another way to do it.
> if nebody could come up with a suggestion, it would b gr8. thanks
> regards
> chris
>
>


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