[Elecraft] Surface Mount tech; Orion; and K2/100

[Phil Wheeler]

Vic Rosenthal wrote:

>Brendan Minish wrote:
>  
>
>>The average ' neat' solderer with a decent fine tipped Iron will not find
>>the larger SMT sizes any harder to deal with than leaded components.
>>    
>>
>
>I agree that it's not a big deal to mount a few SMT parts, for example when
>doing a repair or mod.  But I can't imagine doing a K2 RF board!  For my part,
>at least, the stress generated by manipulating those tiny parts under a
>magnifier severely limits how much work I can do at a time.  Ang God help me
>when one pops out of the tweezers onto the carpet 
>

I'm with you, Vic.  I once built a kit which had the SMD version of the 
NE602 (not a real small SMD, at that).  While I had it pinned down for 
soldering, off it flew.  Six hours later I found it in my left shoe.

No more of that for me :)

73, Phil


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