Re: The strengths of FORTH / OT: SMT soldering

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Robert Miller wrote:

> Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 15:28:47 -0400
> From: Robert Miller <rsmiller@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
> Subject: Re: The strengths of FORTH / OT: SMT soldering
> 
>
> "Brad Eckert" <nospaambrad1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:f5737082-cb09-4f66-b602-c99ad3215be8@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Having soldered SMT parts for a few years with just a soldering iron,
> I find that using solder paste makes things much easier.
>
> Thanks Brad,
>
> I had been wondering whether that might be a viable approach.  My
concern
> was whether I could dispense a small enough amount of paste manually.
Based
> on what you've said, I'll probably give it a try. What size needle(s) do
you

Surface mount, by hand?  Ouch!

Gee, whatever happened to good old wirewrap?
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