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The postman brought me a box from eBay today that contained some reel ends of surface components…

When we were playing with the hot air surface soldering last night @joeatkin2 was saying that he normally solders surface components with an conventional soldering iron… Got me thinking. Who’s up for trying these both by hand and hot air ?

There are 4 resistors in this picture below the vero board . A standard 1/4w version, a surface mount 1206, a 0805 and the little speck of dust at the bottom is an 0402 10k resistor ?!

Not sure about the 0402 size, can hardly see it :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Courty

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I have read reports of 0402s being done with a soldering iron, one pad first to fix component then the other, then heating the board in the end to distribute tensions.

I like the looks of these soldering tweezers:

As for the 0201 (I don’t see one on the photo though it may well be there!), apparently these can be easily/accidentally inhaled…