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Those are 0.2mm (7.8 mil) traces, too. The hardest parts were (1) getting the right amount of solder on it, and (2) holding it in place. It's a little off-center (er, by a few mils ;), but it's soldered in! Solder: I pre-tinned it. I tried removing most with copper braid, but it removed too much. What I ended up doing was wetting it, then dragging the solder away to some other location, and hitting *that* with the braid. That left a small film left on the pads. Holding: I place the part with needle-tip tweezers. What worked to hold it was to use a square toothpick, with one of the flat sides (not the tips!) held first against the edge of the board, then lowered onto the cap. The cap doesn't twitch that way, and you can press on the toothpick to hold it in place long enough to heat the solder all the way to the cap. Proof: the cap measures 12.76 nF on my meter :-) (it's a 0.01uF cap) Oh, a thin film of flux makes the board sticky enough to hold the cap in place, too. FYI this is the second cap I tried; the first had its end cap broken off. They're delicate when heated, esp when you're trying to reposition them at the same time as you heat the solder - you have to push at exactly the right time. I think it's upside down, though :-P DJ _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user