On Thu, 5 Aug 1999 17:40:13 -0500, Barry King wrote:

>On my bench, I
>1) hold parts with superglue or tweezers
>2) hold my breath
>3) solder with teeny tiny soldering iron
>4) wait for alleged toxic vapor from superglue to dissipate and
>solder to cool
>5) breathe
>6) let go of tweezers
>
>Cheaper, but it takes a steady hand and won't work on TSSOP or other
>really dense chip scale stuff.  I'm getting good at SOIC's though!
>

Dude.. Get a hoof tip (special $25 SMT tip).  It's long and shaped
like a knife edge.  Apply a little bit of solder to the edge, dump
lots of flux on the pins and then drag the edge across the pins.
Something about surface tension make damn near perfect joints.  Shoot
our techs here like the tips so much they use them for almost any
type of soldering needed.


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