Surface mount skills (for better or worse) are needed by today's hobbyists. Thanks for keeping the flame burning!

This is like The Bob Ross of Soldering.

Thanks a bundle for this! As an amateur, being able to look over the shoulder of a professional is priceless, and much appreciated.

Remarkable Sir. You are awsome. The world is still in existence just because of you awsome people. Sharing knowledge, and guiding people to the right stuff, clearing up their confusions in a matter of minutes. The world definitely ows you alot. May you live strong and long. Best Regards

That was NOT a bit boring. That was mesmerizing!

I actually like Nixie Tube and EEVblog. Thanks for your review on Elecrow blank prototype PCB quality.

Love the tutorials. They really help us hobbyists out a lot. I mean, you can learn many things best by doing, but it helps to know some basic things to avoid stupid mistakes or common pitfalls. Or just get general advice on some of the more complex and really quite confusing things...

I've enjoyed this series. It's nice to see the whole start - finish from conception to real world 'in your hands'!

best of the best electronics channel of all time. clarity, accent, knowledge, humor - perfect combo :)

That was not boring, it was excellent. I'm new to this stuff and have learned a ton from your indepth explanations. Thank you.

EEVblog is one of the few channels that I watch at normal speed. Most are at 1.5 X. Makes it a struggle to catch up on the first 800+ that I missed, but I believe in taking time for the things that are truly enjoyable.

Not boring at all. This was very helpful to me. Thanks.

Not boring at all. I could watch this all day.

At 9:20 he spits on the chip while talking. The spit then evaporates when the iron touches the nearest pin.

Thanks Dave for this short one. I like the minimalistic and short type of videos, filled with just the "right" amount of information. Thank you as well for those soldering tips and the checkup for the pcb.

9:00 AN ABSOLUTE WORK OF ART! YOU GAVE ME EVERY BIT OF CONFIDENCE TO ORDER ALL THE PCBS I NEEDED!

Ha-ha, I like those Dave's casual mumblings "Beauty, Joy forever" and alike. Makes it fun to watch.

Dave you're a legend mate. I've not soldered in 15 years and your tutorial was super helpful. Nice one!

Straight forward and to the point soldering tutorial.

I'm a newbie with soldering and working on electronics in general and I love these videos! Thank you for all the tips that more experienced folks probably already know and don't think to mention.

Your videos aren't boring at all. I've learned many things. Thanks man! Keep doing these kind of videos.

To follow up on my tweet to you - this is the video that showed what a difference 03mm solder makes vs the call it 1mm that I used to have. I really wish I learned this earlier - it makes *SUCH* a huge difference ! My headers now look like machine fitted headers ! Thanks again from across the ditch !

Not boring at all. ;-) Thanks! And *extremely* helpful: it showed me the mistakes I'd made in trying to do SMD after over 50 years of through-hole experience (mostly using solder that was too thick, and not doing flux separately). You've inspired me to get some proper supplies and try again. One tip I'd offer in exchange: when doing something like those Nixie pins, I use an actual part to hold them in alignment while soldering. If I don't, I inevitably find that one or more winds up off-center, or standing taller than the rest. I do something similar for jobs like soldering the headers on a Wemos, or Arduino Mini/Micro, board: I have a piece of protoboard with some male and female headers soldered to it about an inch apart. I insert the two headers to be soldered so they span those two rows, and they stay properly spaced and perpendicular to the board while I solder them in.

Been soldering stuff for years, and I haven't need to solder smd stuff til now, and this video came at the right time. Thanks Dave!

Love your channel, I'm a line voltage electrician, trying to get into electronics, Thanks for all your videos... you're awesome to listen to!

You're never boring!

Thanks for the video, Dave. I'm no EE, I work in integration and test on SONAR (a field I think you're pretty familiar with based on past videos of yours.) Of course, I&T is the catch-all and the end of the line before delivery, and far too often that means I end up doing work others should have already done. I've never been great at soldering but UKposts has always been a great resource for learning. I also want to thank you for the great reviews you've done on test equipment and test equipment concepts. Your channel, the Signal Path, and w2aew almost make me sound like I know what I'm talking about when operating unfamiliar scopes/analyzers/etc.

Dave is a madman and I LOVE HIM WITH ALL MY HEART ! :))))

So relaxing watching someone solder. Am I a freak or something?

I am so glad you are showing people how to solder surface mount devices like this. The amount of abuse I have had because I do not apply solder to every pin before mounting the device. Halayluya ! Hopefully they watch this and leave me alone.

Came for the soldering, stayed for the accent. Joking, but you could definitely voiceover a children's show, hahaha. Awesome video really appreciate it. You're hopefully going to help me revive my car radio that burned an STM32.

Could have done with watching this before I just finished soldering some SMDs. Joking aside, pleasantly surprised that I didn't do it all wrong and I love your practical attitude to this. I have learned for next time from watching this but also gained confidence that I was on the right lines and to just do it.

Wonderful vid, Dave! Thank you. I love watching SMD soldering vids and this was great. I have not used a well tip for soldering SMD and have only used a fine point chisel tip. I will probably never use a conical tip ever again. Looking forward to seeing your board powered up.

I learnt more in this short video, than I have in all the other videos I've watched that say they teach soldering. A really good demonstration of technique with information on tips and solder gauge too. The only thing that was missing, was the question of iron temperature. I get the impression it's hotter the better, but only if you are fast and proficient at soldering as having it too hot for too long reduces the life of the tips.

It wasn't boring at all. Thanks Dave!

Dave, this is among your best content. Thank you.

Great tutorial. As a newbie to surface mount, I gotta say I find dabbing easier than dragging, at least without having to go back and fix as many bridges.

My friend who isn't with us anymore used to watch this guy. I was never subscribed but I'm getting into electronics also and once I heard this guy say "hi" I immediately felt nostalgic

Nice to see the Nixie tube project progressing further. Looking good Dave :)

Great video. I have a couple of tiny smd chips I need to solder and this was all of the instruction I needed to feel confident doing so. Thanks a bunch.

please dave keep doing this multi paert videos from concept to assembled circuit! really cool

Is a pleasure checking your tutorials. Greetings from MX.

Your soldering videos are my favorites. Thanks!

Awesome! great seeing the solder techniques. I too love the solder flux pens.

Thanks for posting. I definitely need all the advice/help I can get when it comes to SMD work! 🤙 PS. Can’t believe how ridiculously easy you make it look.

Hi Dave! Big fan here! I have relase my channel over half years ago, but I'm from Croatia and Croatia is small country and I decided to switch from Croatian to English language. Any support from you and your fans will be precious... Thanks for great videos....

Great job Dave, soldering is starting to become a rare skill. But to really be able to deal with today's components being able to solder BGA's is the ultimate test of ones skill set. Looking forward to a tutorial on that subject.

Thanks so much mate. Soldered my first smd chip last night using your drag method worked great!

Loved it! Super useful & delivered with such delightfully encouraging enthusiasm. Thank you!

Thanks Dave - gives me confidence to try myself on a couple of boards Ive been putting off!

I was not board once this entire video. I really feel like I learned a lot watching this. And thanks for taking them time to go over multiple methods. I want to solder hdmi into a nintendo 64. This is just the information I was looking for. Now I know more about the tips to use and the solder as well. I never knew what to buy before.

Thanks for sharing your SMD experience.

thanks Dave that was one of the best teaching videos I have seen .Keep up the good work :)

I actually really liked this one; learnt a lot about soldering SMDs which was awesome!

Another soldering video. Whoo! I really love soldering it's just such a relaxing thing to do.

Dave , not boring at all, that was fun. Thank you for sharing. Joel

Incredible stuff Dave. Thank you.

Thank You Dave...I am finally confident in soldering something. I have always made mistakes, and i feel that i can do it now. Great Video!!

Very good video. I built a four digit IN-12 clock a few months ago and I put it into a 70s style case with a red glass filter. I will use your tutorial to solder my golden 5402 IC from 1970 on a DIP-adapter to test and use it later for other projects.

This helps me a lot for an upcoming project. I have a Xbox One X that needs a new plug on the motherboard for the front USB sync cable, bought the part but didn't know how to attach it when it arrives. Now I know what I need to get in preparation, thank you.

My personal favorite tip for drag soldering is the Metcal STTC-126. Bent conical tip, depending on the pitch of the part, I can hit like 5-6 pins at once so it distributes it beautifully.

Really cool to see man! I haven't done anything with surface mounts yet and this was informative.

Some great tips for nuubs, thanks. Having been in the industry for 15 years I was always a dab man with these packages, your example shows why drag (with these tip types) is so unreliable and often time consuming due to reworking via dab. Might as well dab to begin. I often didn't even use a flux pen. Priority of component assembly and the diagonal tacking are great tips.

This video arrived just at the right time for me. And I ordered by Elecrow too ^^ Thanks

thanks for this, I've been wanting to learn how to do Surface Mount electronics for a while now

Good work Dave. You nailed it! Now go with the next 6 more PCBs! :D

I love these tutorial and project videos!!

Excellent video. You really helped me (a beginner) start off with proper technique.

Hi Dave. For the JBC mini spoon, it is better not to get a solder ball under it but rather fill it (make it a flat surface). Once I figured it worked like that, drag soldering was a no brainer. After I figured it, it was a real pleasure to use it. Even if I can get good result with a bezel tip, I like to switch to the mini spoon just even for a single chip.

Thanks for the video. I have watched your soldering videos and they helped a lot. I needed to take the switches out and put new one in my logitech mouse and was having nothing but trouble, after watching your solder vids, I took a file to my stick no controls solder iron gave it a chisel point and got the job done. Now I have two m570 mice that work better then original. Thanks for the demo vids they are a great help.

Very worthwhile watching. This will help with building the kit I purchased when it finally arrives. China is so far away. But then I have been waiting a month for a used book purchased on Amazon.

Loving these project videos!

my birds went crazy singing when you whistled while soldering the tube pins :-D

I really love the phrase "A bit how you doing"

great video, Dave You definitely want to have a fume extractor DIRECTLY on the tip. Like the Weller WFE system, that I am using in my videos.

This is just great Dave! Thanks.

Never before have I seen a video more Australian than this.

Thanks for this one Dave. Makes me a little less apprehensive of retrying SMD work. Tried it a couple of years ago and it was a disaster!

Thanks for the upload!

Thanks for this, im doing my first smd circuit boards this semester in university

Thank you for this detailed view. I´m a beginner, just recently started DIY modules for Eurorack Synths and thru-hole was all trusted myself with. Now that I´ve seen your video, SMD is at least an option - and has moved out of the "won´t be ever able to do that" zone. Very enabling and I don´t mind the extra bits of information given. I actually appreciate them. To those who don´t - go find "better" videos elsewhere, fast forward or simply jump to 10%, 20% etc by using the number keys of your computer... But please let the man do his thing the way he wants to. You´re not paying customers, are you?

Just soldered my first SMD pin by pin thanks to this video

"quite reasonable"? That board is bang on, super duper great. Really nice video.

Nice job I'm practicing with SMDs I got me a practice board with the components and it's not that easy u make it looks so easy good job .

Thanks for the video, great as always. I usually use paste and hot air for SMDs. Any reason you would not recommend this or chose iron over hot air ?

Dave, Thanks for the video. I've been doing surface mouut the same way you just did for years. Just one question. What's your iron temp? I find I have to go a little hotter with lead free.

You should probably add to the title that this is part of the nixie tube project. I initially skipped over this video as I thought it was just a tutorial, but only actually watched it once it occurred to me that this was possibly work on the nixie tube board. Anyway, looks great so far.

Nailed it first try after watching this, bravo mate

Thanks for posting this👍! I've started getting into soldering small mounted parts like this and god damn they are small. I'm using a magnifying glass and feel I need to upgrade to something better to make sure I can accurately see if the soldering is holding or not.

A a real novice, love these build videos.

Thanks. One of the best SMD soldering tutorials I have seen.

Nice video , I learned something and someone who is just thinking about moving in trying things like this , this was great.

Nice video Dave. Bit of blu tack on the bench stops the pcb from sliding too. This Nixie tube finale has got to be the 1000th video

Brilliant great approach very helpful 👍❤️

Thanks for the how to... Very informative. What is the best way/product for removing the flux residue from the PCB after soldering? What product and process do you use?

As a person who's only really ever spent any decent time soldering is with much heavier guage wiring for automotive / CB and HAM radio type purposes it's a marvel to see this fine stuff up close!

Since I always like to learn, thank you very much for the tips :)

I find that paste flux works best for drag soldering. It doesn't burn up as fast. Especially when you have to rework a couple pins. I like the ChipQuik and Amtech stuff. Genuine Amtech flux that is.

Excellent video Dave.

Great video, always good to demonstrate different techniques. At least less experienced people can learn the choices to try and even more experience one can sometimes get a trick or two to compare. I wish I knew about flux or dragging when smd started to appear. It was so difficult to try soldering them traditionally pin by pin with 0.7mm solder and a tiny tip, without flux and magnifiers other than what "helping hands" had ie. the plastic magnifier that just gets in the way!. :) Sockets for odd ball tubes is sometimes a pain. I designed a while back a pcb for old russian photomultipliers. No sockets available and I did exactly the same using some crimp pins for connectors of suitable size. Worked a treat but as they were not totally round, aligning them was a bit of a pain.