When soldering parts with tight pin spacings, don't forget the trick of clearing shorts between adjacent pins using copper braid freshly wet with liquid flux. The message here is: don't panic if you create a short or even a group of shorts while soldering. It happens all the time and is pretty easy to recover from.
Dana On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 5:27 AM Hal Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > > [email protected] said: > > Just to put the record straight, I am a 72-year-old retired electronics > > specialist who uses a 50-year-old Weller soldering iron and a magnified > > (x3.5) bench light to solder 64pin 0.5mm pitch MSP430 microprocessors by > > hand. As I said - "... not impossible to solder." > > How long does it take? > > I've seen a writeup that says roughly, lots of flux, get a blob of solder > on > the tip of the iron and sweep it across a row of pins. If all goes well, > it > just works. I haven't tried it. > > --------- > > It was many years ago when I noticed that my eyes getting older had > crossed > over the pins getting smaller. > > -- > These are my opinions. I hate spam. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.
