From FB group Vintage Transistor Radios<\/p>\n
Gary Maker
\nFor decades I was intimidated by SMDs, never touched them. A few years ago I bought a LED chaser kit and a SMD soldering practice kit, and I got a cheap 8 watt soldering iron that plugs into a USB charger. It has a small pointed tip. Then I got some fine gauge solder, IIRC .25mm. it’s important! Also a flux pen or bottle to keep the SMD from blowing away by your breath (really!). A tweezers and magnifying glass on a pedestal too.<\/p>\n
With the small solder and iron I got through with the practice kit and LED kit without problems. They say practice makes perfect! And the kits are cheap!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From FB group Vintage Transistor Radios Gary Maker For decades I was intimidated by SMDs, never touched them. A few years ago I bought a LED chaser kit and a SMD soldering practice kit, and I got a cheap 8 watt soldering iron that plugs into a USB charger. It has a small pointed tip. <\/p>\n (Read More…)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13217,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13216\/revisions\/13217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}