>> Have to say I'm wondering about hand-working these MCP1640
>> DFN-8 packages though. MSOP8 is bad enough
> 
> I've had to do a few small packages lately.  After some experimentation
> I found a way that seems to work OK for doing these by hand

Thanks. With only a couple of samples I haven't much lee-way for
trial-and-error
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