"Al Arduengo" wrote in message
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On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 20:37:55 -0600, Joel wrote:

It seems these days every chip I want to use in anything is only valuable
in
TSSOP format. The leads are so small my smallest soldering iron covers
three pins at a time. It's hopeless.
Does anyone have any words of experience here?

Joe Loucka AG4QC


Sure. Get a finer soldering iron tip.

Got one.......
Now if I could only *see* that little bitty stuff again....I hate getting
old.

-n6ojn

Noon-Air wrote:

Got one.......
Now if I could only *see* that little bitty stuff again....I hate getting
old.

You're not supposed to be able to see it even when young.

We have a spiffy binocular zoom microscope on almost every bench at
work.

I''ve pretty much given up on building hobby projects though - don't
have the right tools at home, don't have time to use the right tools at
work.