I have a pair of 15 watt Radio Shack grounded tip IC soldering irons and some old tips. I'll file the old tips small and flat.
Agreed about board density, the bottom of the K3 is pretty friendly compared to other equipment I've seen. The hardest part sometimes is not jabbing something outside of your magnified view. [Elecraft] K3 hardware - The Mystery Mods? Brett Howard brett at livecomputers.com Wed Feb 27 16:46:20 EST 2008 Previous message: [Elecraft] K3 hardware - The Mystery Mods? The hard part about the jab and flick to me is to be sure that you get enough heat in there that you are lifting the part and not the pad/trace. Also you have to be careful that you don't get too much heat there as that can lift the pad/trace too... :) I deal with 0402 sized stuff at work all the time and thank my lucky stars that we've not yet gone to 0201 or the 01005's that I've seen on some sample kits! THOSE ARE SMALL! 0402 isn't too terribly scary especially if board density is relatively low. The thing that annoys me is the BGA's with blind and buried vias! Cause its always the signal that you need to look at that is on internal layers all the way from part to part. _______________________________________________ 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
