well... I thought we do some regular soldering work here..not a NASA
experiments :-)
I'm sure there is a simple solution for all the gentle/fine rework' we just
need to be curious enough to find answers. in the piclist sometimes I see
some brilliant solutions that I never thought of it.
curiosity and "digging" is the name of the game! :-))


Regards

Tal Bejerano
AMC - ISRAEL


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From: pic microcontroller discussion list
[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Alan B. Pearce
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 1:21 PM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [EE]: SMD Soldering, was Printer to PCB?


>I must say that I disagree with you about the solder and a very fine tip.

Yes I am aware of people that use a large tip, and wipe it down the pins of
an IC, and that solder paste is useful, but there are times when you need to
lift a leg on a chip because of a necessary circuit change, and the pin has
a track that goes under the chip ....

Large tips, paste etc work OK when starting with a fresh board, and loading
the components. The problem arises when you get to rework :)

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