Getting electronic components

[Ross77]

Mind you, my local postie also does this if it's a recorded delivery or something.

Yeah dont get me wrong the local postie is great. but for some reason most internet deliveries seem to go to the main depot 20 miles away, Then they leave a note saying I can pick it up form them or that they can leave it at the local sorting office 2miles away.... Hmmm I wonder which option would be best :whistling:

[tribbles]

I don't use SMD bits for soldering SMD - I use a pair of normally closed tweezers, and a soldering iron with a 1mm tip on it. Works very well (well enough for those 80-pin 0.5mm spaced PICs).

0604 is the smallest I've done for resistors, but I tend to use 0805s instead (and 1206 if I need a bit of current).

I did buy some 4-resistor 0402s for a project, and also to see how I get on with them.

[Ross77]

Cheers guys. I need to know more so i will start a new tread tommorow on SMD. If its that easy then I can see this being worth while. SMD seems alot cheaper.......

Have you seen the guys on the net using hotel style toasters for smd?

[tribbles]

Cheers guys. I need to know more so i will start a new tread tommorow on SMD. If its that easy then I can see this being worth while. SMD seems alot cheaper.......

Have you seen the guys on the net using hotel style toasters for smd?

Will wait for thread - I've been doing SMD for quite a while now, and prefer it to PTH.

The toasters are, to me, a bit of an overkill, and it's basically making your own reflow oven - it's good if you've got a lot of components to do, since they are done at the same time, but for the numbers I do, it's not something I need. The two key components (in addition to the tweezers) I have are a temperature controlled soldering iron (with plenty of power), and some desolder braid.

Although having said that, I do have some (prospective) projects that have a large component count, and would benefit from it.