Instead he picks up a bit of the solder glob on the end of a toothpick and applies it to each pad. This isn’t really as bad as it sounds. The fine pitch TQFP footprints can just be dragged with ...

Unless you’d like to spend hours with a toothpick and a tub of solder paste, stencils are the way to go whenever you’re placing SMD parts. While most commercial and industrial SMD stencils are ...