RE: For the coiler who has everything else? (fwd)...SMD (fwd)

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Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 11:11:33 +0100
From: Colin Dancer <colind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: RE: For the coiler who has everything else? (fwd)...SMD (fwd)

I'll definitely try the cut next time I remove a chip.

The frightening thing about packaging is the rate of size reduction.  Many
components now aren't ever made available in DIP, and ever SOIC is becoming
less common.  Hand prototyping will be pretty much dead once BGA and flip
chip packs become the norm :-(

Colin.

 

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Subject: Re: For the coiler who has everything else? (fwd)...SMD (fwd)


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Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:06:07 -0700
From: Barton B. Anderson <bartb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: For the coiler who has everything else? (fwd)...SMD (fwd)

Hi Colin,

><ARROGANCE ON>
>Ha!  I laugh at your 0603 resistors!  No real challenge until you get 
>to the bits of dust which are 0402 resistors...
><ARROGANCE OFF>
>  
>
Yes, point taken! I stay away from 402's <grin>. Not so much my soldering,
but my eye's. I've got a half blind right eye. Looking up at a beautiful
blue sky with a few clouds for me is similar to staring at a wall painted
flat white (just a enough light saturates the nerves sending the signals to
the brain, well, according to the doctors). Room light is fine (totally
normal), but brightness of the sun (even a simple
cloud) and blah! Who knows, could be coil related since it's not family
oriented. Needless to say, I wear sunglasses everywhere. Someone recently
mentioned wearing UV glasses while operating a coil. Probably a pretty good
idea.

BTW, the exacto cut through the chip leads I learned at a board house. 
Takes about 8 seconds to remove an 8-pin chip and to suck the remaining
leads is obviously then quick and simple. I no longer use braid for that
particular task. The exacto goes through those little leads like butter.

Take care,
Bart