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Subject: Re: Small batch SMT tools?
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On Sat, 24 Aug 2024 20:51:56 -0000 (UTC), Phil Hobbs
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:

>john larkin <jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote:
>> On Sat, 24 Aug 2024 17:07:08 -0000 (UTC), Ian
>> <${send-direct-email-to-news1021-at-jusme-dot-com-if-you-must}@jusme.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2024-08-24, john larkin <jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote:
>>>> It's crazy that, starting from the earliest days of ICs, you can make
>>>> a mistake by rotating a part. You couldn't plug in a tube wrong.
>>> 
>>> Challenge accepted :)
>> 
>> And they used the tube convention of counting pins counter-clockwise,
>> which actually doesn't make much sense for ICs.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>
>They’re clockwise looking at the bottom, proving once again that dead bug
>is the One True Prototyping Style. ;)
>
>Cheers 
>
>Phil Hobbs 

Cruelty to invertibrates. You should be ashamed.

If you solder a surfmount part to an adapter, do you mount all that
upside down?

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6pfssxz68ay8t64yh6xag/Z356_SN2.JPG?rlkey=o89t5tjsxh31264zbsirjin47&raw=1

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ydvcds95zvzjq56bzeimr/Z412_Proto.JPG?rlkey=hyejukxbbnk3573engf0if4zt&raw=1