I give you credit for trying surface mount by hand. I still have luck
getting through
hole for now.

Mark Whittington wrote:

> These are two seperate questions.  I'm curious to know how others
> that are etching and stuffing their own PCB's handle the following:
>
>   1) How do you handle soldering surface mount components?  Hot-air
>      soldering?  Traditional methods?
>
>   2) What method do you use for connecting traces on opposite sides of a
>      two-sided PCB?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Mark
>
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