[HBQRP] SMT vac tool. A HB tool thats easy to make and is useful too.

[Sean Edwards]

That's awesome!  A couple years ago I lost one of the surface mount 
resistors to my Arduino Dorkboard kit.  I could have really used this 
back then!

-=Sean Edwards=-

On 5/3/2012 1:51 PM, Arnie Grubbs wrote:
> Hi Group,
> I thought that I would pass along this link to a nice write up on a SMT vac placement toolthat I found on the QRPbuilder web pages.
>
> I think Sean and I were talking about this at the last meeting (maybe not, it might have been someone else I was talking to).. but anyway,  its a cool little project, and I havemade a couple of these over the past couple of years. Seems to work well. I saw thiswrite up and its probably better than anything I would cobble up for documentation...
> http://www.qrpbuilder.com/downloads/smd%20device%20041510.pdf
> Anyhow, I got my pump (a fish tank bubbler) from Walmart.  I think I paid $15.00 for it,I suppose I could have looked around for one at a garage sale or something but I was on a mission to "get-r-done".   I found that if I dont, then the parts will sit and neverget put together. :)  The only difference between the one in the file and the one I made was that I had to reverse the valve in the pump to get it to draw from the hose attachment, instead of drilling into the body of the pump..
> 73- Arnie KA0NCR....
>
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