Hot air is also hand soldering, so far I can tell. Low air flow and heating from the under side will deal with those sockets nicely. SMD connectors for flat printed cables are much harder, but still without problems with a Weller WMD1 hot air station. VV Charles Craft wrote: >Anyone think these SMT PLCC sockets are hand solderable? >http://www.mill-max.com/images/products/PDF/095.pdf >http://rocky.digikey.com/WebLib/Mill-Max/Photos/1.jpg --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu