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Default Rolling your own soldering tip


"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
Jim Yanik wrote:
Do they currently make Antex tips small enough for SMD work?


Yes.

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And also specially shaped tips for removing SMD IC packages, all pins at
once, and ones to fit all standard sizes of R and C SMD packages. I
inherited a full set of these from a workshop that was packing it all in.
They work very well, but are expensive to replace when they burn away.

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