21 Jun
2010
21 Jun
'10
3:23 p.m.
"A. Christoff Baumann" <feedle at feedle.net> writes:
Not everybody has access to a teacher [...]
That's the important thing -- the best way to learn how to handle SMD
soldering is to find someone who already knows how and watch them
carefully for a while!
I'm pretty good at through-hole soldering, but I really struggled with
SMD until a friend spent a couple of hours showing me the tricks (in
particular, how to use the surface tension of solder blobs to your
advantage). These days I find it just as easy as through-hole
soldering, even with shaky hands and a fairly modest solder station;
it's just a different set of techniques.
--
Adam Sampson <ats at offog.org> <http://offog.org/>