[Elecraft] New K1 Kit

[Paul Maciel]

Hi Grant,

There certainly were a lot more than a handful that build the NorCal 
2030 that had a surface parts count close if not more that the K1.

With the right tools building surface mount can be easier than thu hole.

---Paul AK1P

On 6/6/2019 3:18 PM, Grant Youngman wrote:
> 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.
>>
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