Lots of discussion on hand-soldering this scale (and much smaller) in the archives. I do it all the time, and would NEVER drill a hole if I can avoid it. My approach for SMT (my designs are mostly SMT) 1 flux the board with spray rework flux 2 pretin all traces and pads as thinly as possible with solder 3 put a small dab of solder on pin1 4 with IC held by tweezers in left hand, and iron in right, melt the dab and s l i d e the ic into alignment 5 solder farthest pin (eg pin 5 on a soic8) to lock alignment 6 solder remaining pins one side 7 solder remaining pins other side Doing dozens one after the other, takes me around 20 seconds for 8pin IC. (find it is easiest to rotate 180 degrees after steps 4 and 6, so I do ALL ICs for step 4, rotate, do all steps 5 etc etc) Stuart Meier ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave King" To: Sent: 22 February 2002 07:53 Subject: Re: [EE] Drivin Suzie Q (transistor troubles) > Hi Alan > > This just seems too good to be true ;-] Its a cruel hoax by Fairchild who will > discontinue the part the day before I order ;-] > > I'll put you on my beer distribution list if this works out ;-] > > >$.22 ea @ 1K pcs. > >pn FDC6323L Integrated Load Switch > > If it works this is much cheaper than the combination of other parts ie 2222 > and power trans. > > My only question would be if its possible to hand solder this. I didn't see a > through hole model and I haven't tried to solder a sot 6 before with an iron. > > Cheers > > Dave > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics > (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics > > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics