[Elecraft] New K1 Kit

[Grant Youngman]

There probably aren’t more than a handful  of folks who could actually build an SMD kit of any size without having to send it back to Elecraft to be built or to fix the mess.

Grant NQ5T
K3 #2091 KX3 #8342

> On Jun 6, 2019, at 3:13 PM, Gwen Patton <ardrhi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have a decent soldering station, but for SMD beyond a few parts I don't
> use a soldering iron. I use an i-Extruder pencil (a stepper-motor powered
> syringe dispenser) to apply dots of solder paste to the pads, then tweezers
> to pick-and-place the components. If it's a small area, I use my hot air
> station to melt the paste and solder the parts. If it's a larger board, I
> use a microcontroller-driven heating plate called a ReflowR to precisely
> ramp up the heat, melt the paste, and cool it off so as to cause the least
> thermal shock to the board or the components.
>