At 14:44 10/05/97 +0200, Gustaf Tham <gtham@lidkoping.mail.telia.com> wrote:
>My PCB strategy is to make single-sided cards, with most components
>on the component side (how about that) but all resistors
>surface-mounted on the foil side.  Since the PIC has centralized
>power leads, it's easy and advantageous to fit a surface-mounted 0.1uF
>cap under the PIC, between Vdd and Vss.  If you haven't tried SMD and
>don't have ready access to components, I'll gladly send you coupla
>hundred resistors for nothing.  Mail me directly, not the list.

I never have done SMT, but I'll have to do a couple of prototypes now, and
it seems you have some "hobbyist experience" with that :-)

How do you mount the components? Is it feasible to mount SMT resistors, and
even SOIC packages manually? Any special techiques, precautions?

Thanks,

Gerhard