Re: gEDA-user: smd challenge boards

[Steve Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To keep the board in place... try double sticky tape.

Steve M.

P.S. not my idea, I saw one engineer using it.

Chris Emerson wrote:
>On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 12:20:53AM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
>  
>>Anyone get it working yet?  Anyone?  ;-)
>>    
>
>I've started trying to put one of mine together, after buying some new
>much pointier tweezers.
>
>0402 is tricky, 0201 is hard but doable, but the 01005 are so small that
>it's hard to actually tell if they're still there or not.  The first one
>disappeared from the tweezers (with a tiny ping).  I'm not sure what
>happened to the second one.  I think I might have had it soldered in
>roughly the right place at one point, but moved it again.  By this time
>my eyes were getting pretty tired, so I didn't start on the ones from
>the spare kit.
>
>On my wish/shopping list: better magnifier, finer iron tip, finer
>solder.
>
>Anyone have a good way of keeping at least the tiny board still while
>working on it?
>
>Chris
>
>
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