I use a Weller model WTCPS with a fine 700deg tip.  Have everything
clean so it doesn't take long.  Often I solder every other pin, wait for
it to cool, then solder the rest.  That reduces heat stress on the
package.

Sherpa Doug

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Whipple [mailto:notevilac@HOTMAIL.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 3:22 PM
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: [EE] hobiest soldering smt and ics without sockets
>
>
> what tip/temperature/and model do you use? i also heard that
> i might want to
> make a heatsing to put on the part when i do this.
>
>
> >From: Douglas Butler <dbutler@IMETRIX.COM>
> >Reply-To: pic microcontroller discussion list
> <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
> >To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> >Subject: Re: [EE] hobiest soldering smt and ics without sockets
> >Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:51:19 -0500
> >
> >I routinely solder packages as small as SO & SOT with a Weller
> >temperature controlled hand iron.  I don't use packages any
> smaller than
> >that.  The size of my products is limited by the size of my
> customer's
> >fingers, and the seals and bulkheads needed to keep the
> seawater at bay.
> >
> >Douglas Butler (aka Sherpa Doug)
> >Senior Engineer
> >Imetrix Inc.
> >1235 Route 28A
> >P.O. Box 152
> >Cataumet, MA 02534-0152
> >tel. (508) 564-6460
> >Fax (508) 564-6860
> >dbutler@imetrix.com
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Aaron Whipple [mailto:notevilac@HOTMAIL.COM]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 2:42 PM
> > > To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> > > Subject: [EE] hobiest soldering smt and ics without sockets
> > >
> > >
> > > in all of my classes i have learned to use ic sockets, and
> > > the industrial
> > > ways of soldering smt devices. i am working on a project that
> > > i do not want
> > > the ic to wiggle out of the socket, i am not worried about
> > > having to swap
> > > out the ic so i wish to solder it directly to the board. what
> > > ways do you
> > > recomend to solder ics and smts to a pcb within a hobiest
> > > budget, without
> > > overheating them?
> > >
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