If you find yourself soldering tiny SMD packages, like these dual MOSFETs, you might pull out the microscope and get to see the solder paste for what it really is:
So many tiny balls of solder! And as all of the microscopic spheres melt, surface tension pulls the blob onto the pads in the most amazing way.
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We learn, share, and make things.
Nice pix. We have been experimenting with solder paste – filling in the troughs of the SCADuino with a copper dust and solder paste mixture – trying to make the paste flow a bit. It’s mostly clumping and not flowing yet. Any chance you would like to collaborate? The SCADuino is at http://scaduino.wordpress.com/ and we are planning to post a new stl with deeper troughs as soon as we print a few more. Please let us know.