New soldering iron
2003-12-15 by Leon Heller
I've just bought a reconditioned Metcal solder station. It came with a selection of new tips including a 'Micro-hoof' tip made for drag soldering fine-pitch devices like the LPC2100 chips. It does make soldering them very easy - I just tack down two opposite corners (making sure the chip is correctly positioned), apply plenty of liquid flux and drag the tip along the leads. These tips are shaped a bit like a horse's hoof with a tiny depression to hold a small amount of liquid solder. A little cleaning up with desolder braid is sometimes required. Leon -- Leon Heller, G1HSM Email: aqzf13@... My low-cost Philips LPC210x ARM development system: http://www.geocities.com/leon_heller/lpc2104.html