Re: gEDA-user: best ways to do SMT assembly

["Mark Rages" <markrages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Dave N6NZ <n6nz@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

[good advice elided]

> For TQFP's, apply a stripe of solder across all the pads, and tack
> solder just two pins on opposite corners.  After you are happy with the
> alignment you can solder the rest down.  Probably you will have bridges,
> which is easily handled with flux and solder wick.
>

Here's a video of the process:  http://vivara.net/smt1.mov  (mirrored
from bdmicro.com, their link is broken at the moment.)

Regards,
Mark
markrages@gmail
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Mark Rages, Engineer
Midwest Telecine LLC
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