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dave · June 4th 09, 02:19 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave

BDK wrote:
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Telamon wrote:
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BDK wrote:

Sure thing Kookaburra. You are such a prolific Usenet Kook I doubt you
have time for anything else.

LOL, I guess I'm not as feeble minded as you are. I solder a few joints,
post, solder a few more, watch TV, etc. Not all that hard to, for me at
least. I've been putting stuff together a long long time now, and can
plug in parts and solder with the best of them.
You smoke a few joints and then watch TV and make 1,813 garbage posts in
May. Tough life you got going there.

Sounds like pretty advanced stuff, if it still has leads and doesn't
need an oven.

You don't need an oven to do most SMD stuff, just steady hands and a
tiny iron. A vacuum desoldering station makes it easy to pull parts.
The preamps I did were a mix of parts, a little SM pc board and a
bandpass filter made the old fashioned way. Even wound a couple of
coils.

As my hands get steadier my vision gets worse. I use Mageyes and a
pointy Hakko type soldering station for discrete SMT component changing
(4 "lead" FETs usually).

If I was building a new board from scratch I'd use paste and hot air
of some kind.