On Wed, 15 Aug 2018 12:56:36 +0200 Ricardo Wurmus rekado@elephly.net wrote:
Hi David Niklas,
As for my status, (since you did ask why the ML was silent), I'm hand soldering an eDP connector. It is going poorly as the pins are so small that I had to buy a set of 20x mag glasses.
Have you tried drag soldering? You would coat the pins and pads in thick flux paste and drag a small ball of solder with a large chisel tip iron across the pins. Any unwanted bridges can be destroyed by heating them shortly.
I've heard of that but all the youtube vids I could find were about PCB - with pre-applied-solder in the pins (and those were the guys who are soldering in a manner that is non-conducive to their immanent demise...) If you could direct me I would appreciate it.
Thanks, David