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Comment on How to make soldering fine pitch surface mount ridiculously easy. by joggl

joggl — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:55:31 +0000

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DIY clamp helps with surface mount soldering « Black Hat Security — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:43:52 +0000

[...] writer [Gerrit Coetzee] built a simple clamp to aid in surface mount component soldering. This cheap, easily made device uses gravity to hold tiny components in place. The tip of the bolt [...]

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DIY clamp helps with surface mount soldering « Baudot-Code Blogging — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 05:12:30 +0000

[...] writer [Gerrit Coetzee] built a simple clamp to aid in surface mount component soldering. This cheap, easily made device uses gravity to hold tiny components in place. The tip of the bolt [...]

Comment on How to make soldering fine pitch surface mount ridiculously easy. by Mugenkun

Mugenkun — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:32:03 +0000

Lol, sorry but your “master” clearly doesn’t know how to solder SMD very well.

Anyway, for heat sinking it’s a nice idea, if you need it.

Comment on How to make soldering fine pitch surface mount ridiculously easy. by DMackey

DMackey — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:42:38 +0000

…and it acts like a heat sink as well. Nice idea.

Comment on How to make soldering fine pitch surface mount ridiculously easy. by Jake

Jake — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:18:26 +0000

A much quicker way to do it:

1. Apply small amount of solder to one pad, preferably a pad that is on the side of your iron hand (right hand for me)
2. Grab SMT component with tweezers, hold in place
3. Heat the pad with pre-applied solder, then apply solder to the rest of the pads. Make sure to add a little solder to the original pad.

This method is quick and easy. You can pre-apply solder to a pad for each component on a PCB, and then literally do hundreds of components per hour, even IC’s.

Comment on How to make soldering fine pitch surface mount ridiculously easy. by Ram

Ram — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:05:31 +0000

excellent idea…gonna try it rite away…

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Comment on Thanks for ruining my programming font DejaVu by Raghu

Raghu — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 08:01:24 +0000

agreed.

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Comment on How to make soldering fine pitch surface mount ridiculously easy. by windigofer

windigofer — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:33:27 +0000

Very interesting take on an “Eleventh Finger” SMT holder (there’s some ongoing discussion of these on an amateur radio mailinglist I’m on focusing on an SMT-heavy transceiver kit).

Just to verify some dimensions and such:

Roughly 2″ diameter dowel segment for bottom, roughly 1/2 to 1″ diameter dowel segment for top, 6-32 bolt and washers?

(Among other things, I’d like to build this beauty myself and possibly provide a parts list to the mailinglist as a whole with pointers to your simple instructions)