SMD soldering – At first, I tinned all the circuit board pads for the SMD chips before trying to mount them. That was a mistake. With both pads for chip tinned, heating up one end of the chip caused ...

Need to do some SMD soldering? No tools? No problem! Here’s a creative method that could be a handy tool to add to your belt: SMD soldering using hot sand. [Oliver Krohn] recently released this little ...

printedcircuitsboards.com published a tutorial to explain how to solder SMD chips onto PCBs. It is very well explained and has 2 videos where you can see exactly how the smd soldering process occured.