12 Aug
2006
12 Aug
'06
10:04 a.m.
Jim Davis wrote:
Close up SMD work when your pushing 40 or 50 is
tricky. I can easely handle
the finest pitch when I'm looking through a binoc microscope. It's quite
amusing to see a 30 gauge blue wire and solder the size of a truck while
trying to mod a board. Without optical assistance, I might as well be
trying
to neuter a fly with a butcher knife.
Oh, definitely. For working with surface-mount components,
magnification is as much a requirement as a soldering iron.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL