[ELECTRON] Maklab Shopping List... Help needed....

[Clive Mitchell]

There is a reason they used lead in the first place.....

As for soldering surface mount LEDs round the wrong way.  It's easy to
do.  The polarity markings are tiny.  My speciality is dropping them
on the carpet, never to be seen again.

On 7 February 2012 22:00, Thomas Parry <yrrapt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Clive, got my lead based solder today, multicore 0.7mm 60/40.  Used it on a
> couple of connectors and a few 0805 LEDs that I had soldered the wrong way
> round (rookie mistake, I know).  The long and short of it is that, dare I
> say it, I'm a convert.  It flows much better, doesn't glob on the end of my
> iron and makes SMD components much much easier to solder.



-- 
Clive Mitchell