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Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 8:21 am
by Mike
I hate those.

Far too fiddly, how many hands have you got?

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 8:30 am
by NickS
Mike wrote:I hate those.

Far too fiddly, how many hands have you got?
One for the soldering iron, one for the pump. Assembly can be trickier, but I'm good with chopsticks. ;)

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 8:31 am
by NickS
Actually, where it gets trickier is when you have to use a thumbnail to move the leg away from the side of a plated-through hole.

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 8:39 am
by Mike
Braid all the way. You can suck all the solder simply and just pull the component out.