[Elecraft] K3 - SMT mods

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

what a brilliant idea -pity, cos I was getting myself worked up to buy  
a new toy - er I mean tool!

Great Peter, thanks.
-- 
If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week  
earlier
than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you  
have
them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic. -Barry Jones,
politician, author (1932- )

On 22 Jun 2008, at 15:53, Peter Howson wrote:

> David
>
> I saw a simple tip several years ago in an article on SMD in Model  
> Engineers
> Workshop. Take a spade crimp, remove the plastic bit and "screw" the  
> crimp on to
> a fine soldering iron bit. Either squeeze or prise open the spade to  
> fit the SMD
> component - you can now heat both ends at the same time and lift off  
> with
> tweezers.
>
> This has worked for me using an Antex soldering station which is now  
> over 20
> years old and still going strong.
>
> I remembered I scanned a copy so here it is.