[Elecraft] New K1 Kit

[Walter Underwood]

Heathkit has a kit to learn surface mount soldering. You build a code practice oscillator.

https://shop.heathkit.com/shop/product/heathrulestm-cpo-active-rulertm-surface-mount-solder-skills-learning-kit-er-1001-40

I’m tempted to get one. That would be a nice skill to pick up.

wunder
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> On Jun 6, 2019, at 12:35 PM, Paul Maciel <ak1p.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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