Dan's Workshop Blog photo blog of recent D.I.Y. happenings in and around my workshop Low cost homebuilt hot air tool works wonderfully You’ve probably seen how that modern circuit boards are all made with the new (or maybe I’m just old?) surface mount technology, or SMT. Well, what’s a guy supposed to do when he wants to salvage SMT components from such “modern” boards? The commercially available
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