Lum Wee Mei wrote: > snip < > I am not a assembly gal but I have heard that pallets are used to > support them at the bottom to prevent them from falling regardless with > or without heat sink. > Actually the surface tension of solder across the large number of balls may be perfectly alright. There is a calculation that I thought I'd have dug up by now that will help. It is also possible to use higher temperature solder for the first side assembled, if all parts on that side are robust enough for the higher assembly temps. -- Jeff Seeger Applied CAD Knowledge Inc Chief Technical Officer Tyngsboro, MA 01879 jseeger "at" appliedcad "dot" com 978 649 9800 ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.org List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu