Hi Tony, > You need a good ringlight magnifier and 1mm soldering iron.
That set-up, even with my old eyes, allowed soldering of the .5mm pitch pins on Romdisq.
Well, I have a "helping hands" with a decent magnifying glass that I used and a geologists 30* illuminated Loupe.
I was soldering my Gerboard last night and it has 20 surface mount components to do, got they are tiny p- about 3 mm by 1 mm for a pile (10) capacitors. Took me ages, and I dropped two of them as well. Took ages to find them.
I don't have a ringlight, but mu head torch (LED) works fine when positioned on the circuit board close to where I'll be sticking a hot iron!
I managed 15 SMDs last night, 5 to go! Took over an hour. This is my first foray into SMDs - I can't say I'm keen, they are too damned small and even getting them out of the packaging is tense.
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