On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 05:01:25PM -0400, Tim E. Real wrote:
> Send it to me! I'll do it!
> Replacing 100+ pins SM ICs by hand is something we specialized in every day
> for many years in our repair shop.
> When you can't afford high priced rework stations, you learn to do without.
>
> A Sony technician taught us one method in our arsenal:
> When soldering, just go nuts with soldering all the pins, don't worry about
> bridges. Then you use solder wick to remove all the bridges. Then
> do some fine touch-ups with the iron. This method worked quite well in
> many cases. A fine dental pick or equivalent tool helps, to run in between the
> pins as you are touching up with the iron.
Good to know !
When I was working at Alcatel there were some ladies in the
electronics workshop specialised in this sort of operations -
replacing SMD components, destroyed by the developers, on
prototype PCBs. They could also solder cables onto 19-pin
Lemo connectors without melting them, and perform other sorts
of miracles. They won my eternal admiration - I get nervous
when I have to solder an XLR-3M.
Ciao,
-- FA There are three of them, and Alleline. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@email-addr-hidden http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-devReceived on Mon Sep 20 04:15:01 2010
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