Another thing to watch out for is them popping up! You need to hold them down with the tweezers while you're soldering. Otherwise, when your iron melts the solder, it just pivots and raises like a toll road barrier when you stick in your change.
Get some reverse action tweezers - the kind that open when you squeeze them. It makes handling small things much easier.
Here's how I do 0603 components: Put a little bit of solder on one of the the pads (the bottom or right pad is usually easier if you'r right handed). Get the compenent in your tweezers so you can hold it flat against the PCB. Melt the solder you put on the pad and slide the component into the pool until the solder sticks. Let the solder cool and then let go with your tweezers (don't try to let go while the solder is still melted it almost always will move your component). Now go back and solder the component to the other pad.
I find that with solder paste I have a terrible time with the problem bonxer mentioned - the solder doesn't stick on one side ant the component sticks strait up - even when I use hot air. The iron and tweezers is much faster and more reliable for me.
I find that with solder paste I have a terrible time with the problem bonxer mentioned - the solder doesn't stick on one side ant the component sticks strait up - even when I use hot air. The iron and tweezers is much faster and more reliable for me.
If I understand bmcculla's point correctly, he recommends that we don't use solder paste. I assume that the solder is resin cored, ie. has paste inside it.
good job i got a hundred of each value because i only had to solder 8 and i lost 13(once you have droped them you cant find them agian)
thanks for the help i did as was commonly suggested and it was suprisingly easy