On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 21:03 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: > > I agree 100% here...I actually find through-hole soldering to be > > more difficult and tedious than SMT now. All but the very tiniest > > SMT parts can be soldered with a quality iron. > > Hey, *I* can solder even the tiniest ones. You get your challenge > board working yet? ;-)
I just built one... on 01005 disappeared with a "ping" of my tweezers (the tips of which actually dwarfed the component). The second I nearly got soldered right - but was too much of a perfectionist - and tried to re-orient it, eventually breaking the end contacts off. Oh.. and I bet it didn't like its time being drowned in a ball of solder and stuck to my iron either. Still.. I cheated anyway, was using a x20 Binary microscope, x40 sometimes (although that is just too magnified to see what you're doing in context - burn marks on thumb to prove it!). What diameter solder wire do people use? I was using a bent, pointy metcal iron with an 0.5mm ish tip, and 0.5mm solder wire. (Some lead, tin and copper alloy). I found that the solder balls up on the end of the wire to the point where it can dwarf an 0402's contact pad. Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
