{"id":212,"date":"2010-07-07T22:25:14","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T22:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baulkolites.com\/wp\/?p=212"},"modified":"2010-07-07T22:25:14","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T22:25:14","slug":"tot-smt-pens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mynoellights.com\/blog\/?p=212","title":{"rendered":"TOT &#8211; SMT pens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Tools of the Trade<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I like using Surface mount components where ever I can. But I have to say the size of those devilish small components can be a real pain. Picking them up is always an issue and most the time a decent pair on non-magnetic tweezers will do the job. I recently purchased a SMT pen like the one below.\u00a0 (I will replace the photo with the real one latter).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_213\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/baulkolites.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/smt-150c-500.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-213\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-213\" title=\"smt-150c-500\" src=\"http:\/\/baulkolites.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/smt-150c-500-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Surface mount pen<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I recently came across an web site will all sorts of great DIY tips including how to make your own SMT Vacuum pen. Check out Ken article <a title=\"QRP Builder\" href=\"http:\/\/www.qrpbuilder.com\/downloads\/smd%20device%20041510.pdf\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 It almost makes you want to go out and buy a cheap fish tank pump just to try it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tools of the Trade I like using Surface mount components where ever I can. But I have to say the size of those devilish small components can be a real pain. Picking them up is always an issue and most &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mynoellights.com\/blog\/?p=212\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[17,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mynoellights.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mynoellights.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mynoellights.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mynoellights.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mynoellights.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mynoellights.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mynoellights.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mynoellights.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mynoellights.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}