This is the most complex or detailed soldering I've done so far, the QFN20 package is very small but still not impossible to ...

Tips are critical. Large chisel tips work for desoldering, cone tips are the lowest common denominator, but fixing anything on the micro scale is easier with the right tip. For instance, a knife tip ...

The process in which 2 or more metal items are joined together by melting and passing a filler metal (having lower melting point than the workpiece) into the joint is called Soldering. Here, we have ...

There are a lot of instances in which large bulky XLR connectors just won’t do — when working in tight spaces or trying to minimize the “footprint” of the connector, especially in our age of video in ...

Kurtz Ersa and Connect Tech partnered to host an Advanced Selective Soldering Training Course in an immersive learning experience.

Most Hackaday readers will be a pretty dab hand with a soldering iron. We can assemble surface-mount boards, SOICs and TSSOPs are a doddle, 0402s we take in our stride, and we laugh in the face of ...

GAINESVILLE, GA ― October 2025 ― Count On Tools, Inc. (COT), a leading provider of precision components and SMT spare parts, has expanded its line of selective soldering nozzles, giving manufacturers ...