I am going to try this today this looks like a really good idea! I need to go by Radio Shark today anyway. Now why wasn't I paying attention when Roman Black and whomever wrote this page at USBMicro were talking about this? > Desoldering iron and a fish tank pump for hot air soldering gun... -- Lawrence Lile Senior Project Engineer Toastmaster, Inc. Division of Salton, Inc. 573-446-5661 voice 573-446-5676 fax PicDude Sent by: pic microcontroller discussion list 01/30/2003 09:47 AM Please respond to pic microcontroller discussion list To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU cc: Subject: Re: [EE]: SMT soldering Here is another option -- I found this link some weeks ago and thought I'd build one to experiment since it's quite low-cost. If anyone here's used it, I'd love to hear their experiences on how it worked/works. http://www.usbmicro.com/apps.html Cheers, -Neil. > -----Original Message----- > From: pic microcontroller discussion list > [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of llile@SALTONUSA.COM > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 9:55 AM > To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU > Subject: Re: [EE]: SMT soldering > > > Imre, > > I just use a standard adjustable temp. Weller soldering iron with an > 0.032" tip, the smallest size they sell. I bought some syringes with > paste solder and paste flux. These work a lot better for surface mount > than wire solder. However, the old trick of laying a piece of wire solder > alongside a row of pins, and then melting it all at once still works too. > As long as you have enough flux, anyway. I have several pairs of tweezers > with different tips, never could get those vacuum tweezers to work right. > > This is a relatively slow way to do surface mount, but for occasional use > it works fine. I never got the toaster oven method working very well. > > > -- Lawrence Lile > > > > > > "dr. Imre Bartfai" > Sent by: pic microcontroller discussion list > 01/30/2003 04:30 AM > Please respond to pic microcontroller discussion list > > > To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU > cc: > Subject: [EE]: SMT soldering > > > Hello All, > > I need to solder SMT parts (0805, SOT23, SOIC etc.) occasionally. However, > in the catalogue of Farnell what I found soldering irons with tips which > seem to be appropriate for the said parts are called as > desoldering/reworking tools. My question is: are these nice things not > capable to solder SMT parts at all? If really not, how could I do the job? > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > Regards, > Imre > > -- > http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! > email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body > > > > -- > http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! > email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body > --- > [This E-mail scanned for viruses] > > -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body