Re: [Elecraft] General SMD Soldering Question

2006-07-27 Thread Wyn Hughes
lhelm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Wyn Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 11:29 PM Subject: RE: [Elecraft] General SMD Soldering Question Wyn, If you have the hot air gun or oven and solder paste and know how to use it, by all means go that

RE: [Elecraft] General SMD Soldering Question

2006-07-27 Thread Don Wilhelm
Wyn, If you have the hot air gun or oven and solder paste and know how to use it, by all means go that route, but if not, then just use the Hakko - you will be soldering two widely spaced tabs on the capacitors rather than finely spaced leads like are encountered on SMD ICs. Yes, the Kester 44 wi

[Elecraft] General SMD Soldering Question

2006-07-27 Thread Wyn Hughes
This is distantly related to the mainstream of Q&A on this net.I intend to use my new K2 to drive a Icom IC-2KL amplifier. Please imagine for now, there is an intermediate amp between the K2 and the 2KL. One of the twin PA boards on the 2KL ( a backup, I have 2 of them) is unfortunately, smoked