I just got a shipment notice for my last order (6733).
Eleven day turnaround. Wasn’t expecting to hear from you til next week!
Did GP get a panel through in record time? I sure hope that email wasnt a mistake 
Well don't they quote 10-18 days for delivery? So it'll take another couple days for delivery, unless you paid extra for a faster shipping method - so I think they're right on schedule.tmbg:
I just got a shipment notice for my last order (6733).Eleven day turnaround. Wasn’t expecting to hear from you til next week!
Did GP get a panel through in record time? I sure hope that email wasnt a mistake
Either way - I was quite happy to see that message in my inbox this morning as well 
I’m certainly not complaining, I order every two weeks or so, so I’m pretty familiar with their schedule, and this one just seems about a week ahead of schedule
Ah - I got my board today. That was fast! I guess it doesn’t take too long for something to go from Colorado to Oregon.
yeah I got mine today too, they look wonderful!
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Those look nice. Just curious - how hard is it to solder surface mount LEDs? Any harder than any other surface mount discrete?
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nah, not hard at all. especially those great big 1206 guys. They’re a breeze
yeah, my board has 0805’s gets a bit tight cause i am checking the footprints and testing the board as i go along. So now i have the big IC’s in i can only just about get the the SMT resistor pads!
For work, I frequently use 0603 packages and have gotten pretty good at hand soldering them with a 1/64" Weller tip. I helped a friend of mine out with an electronics project and he had diodes that looked to be no bigger than fleas! I forget the package off hand but they were just under 1mm in length. I had to buy a $30 pair of tweezers in order to manipulate them. I ended up soldering them by pre-tinning the pads, laying down a layer of flux, positioned the diode and held it down with the tweezers, then ever so quickly touched the pad with the 1/64" tip. A slight tap was enough to make the solder from the pads flow.
-Bill
lol, i use a ‘standard’ tip for 0603’s 
lol. i just make my pads extra wide so i can put the tip on it to heat the solder.
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lol, i use a ‘standard’ tip for 0603’s
I wish I had the luxury of extra room for large pads!
I use 0805 for R C components, and 1206 for LEDs,
I can do 0603 ok, 0402 drives me NUTS, and I don’t want to even think about 0201.
Sneeze and lose a hundred dollars worth of parts :shock:
The 201’s are fun because since they use so little solder, if you stare at them hard enough, the solder will flow!
There comes a point in the smaller guys (0402, 0201s, and what are the new ones?) when soldering one end heats up the other end. It can be hard to get the suckers to sit still. I’ve touched up an 0603 resistor just to have it come off on the iron tip.
We solder MiRF test units on a regular basis 8).
-Nathan