On Thu, 20 May 1999 09:55:31 -0500, CUTTLER! wrote:

>Digikey sells a DIP adapter for the different pin count SOIC devices.  Page
>123.  They range from $6.00 to $10.00 and then you can use a simple socket
>to prototype with.
>
>While your there pick up some solder wick and a soldering iron with a really
>small tip  :-P

We use knife tips for all of our surface mount rework.
MUCH better.  You add a little solder to the tip, flux the
pins and then drag it across all the pins.  Something about
surface tension make it work.  It makes joints goood enough
that you can't tell which ones were reflowed or reworked.



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Richard A. Smith                         Bitworks, Inc.
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