On Sunday, November 10, 2019 at 1:30:16 PM UTC-5, John Larkin wrote:
On Sun, 10 Nov 2019 12:26:29 -0500, Alex Borroughs wrote:

On 11/10/19 5:24 AM, Clive Arthur wrote:
On 08/11/2019 17:25, Alex Borroughs wrote:

Sounds like someone does surface mount soldering. I attempted it once
and the result was disaster and haven't done so since.

That's about all that I do. I was initially terrified of 1206 parts.
Now I find 0402s to be mildly annoying.

Be glad that you don't do Microwave work that sometimes use 0201 or 01005 capacitors, at a fraction of a pF. They look like dust, in the container.