A "trick" that I learned was to take a long piece of solid "bell wire" or hookup wire (copper) about 6- 8 inches long. Remove the insulation and wrap a coil around your soldering iron tip. Bring the last bit of wire out, parallel to the axix of the soldering iron. Plug the iron, in, let the wire heat up, cut the "tip" to the length you want and you have a very fine tip for soldering SMD devices.
I wouldn't want to build a kit this way; but if you only have a couple devices to solder it works pretty good. 73 de Larry W2LJ - Vivat Morse! © ® [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.qsl.net/w2lj ARRL Lifemember QRP ARCI #4488 NJQRP #47 FISTS #1469 QRP-L #778 FP #612 QRPp-I #759 ARS #1528, AmQRP, CQC #746 K1 #1647 - K2 #4090 for QRP Icom IC-751A for QRO Butternut HF9V and G5RV antennas ----- Original Message ----- John Payne wrote: > Who needs an expensive "soldering station" for SMT? I've built a couple of > SMT projects with a standard soldering station (using a fine tip)with no > problem. If one looks for excuses, one can find them, and never do or learn > anything new! There are many cheap and easy tricks for SMT work, if one > only cares to look a bit! > > 73 de John N4FLJ _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
