THE VIDEO SHELF · surface mount soldering
Professional SMT Soldering: Hand Soldering Techniques - Surface Mount
A three-minute demonstration of professional hand-soldering techniques for multi-lead surface mount parts, to IPC class 3 criteria.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN points to it as proof that SMD soldering is simpler than people fear.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- John Gammell
- Topic
- surface mount soldering
- Format
- tutorial
- Level
- intro
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2016–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Soldering surface mount devices doesn't seem to be too bad, actually. Here are a couple of short videos: [LINK] [VIDEO]
tzs on Hacker News · 2016-04
In I decided to make a graphics card for my Amiga 2000I'd say that this is going to be one of the easiest surface mount (SMD) soldering jobs you'd ever do. Removing is easy, adding is hard. Fwiw, my first time doing SMD I was really nervous but then found it to be quite easy and …
godelski on Hacker News · 2023-07
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