Flush Hold Tweezers
When manually soldering SMDs, I mostly use the previously mentioned Magnetic Hold down Clamp.
There are, however, times when you may want to use tweezers to place and hold down your SMD while soldering.
A flushing problem can happen when using normal tweezers as the device might not be flush on the PCB surface.
If you use the soldering method where solder is first placed on one pad and the device is placed with tweezers, the device can sit off the PCB; you then must reheat the SMD and place the tweezers on top of the device to keep it flush.
The following discussion shows how to modify a pair of tweezers so the tweezers can add a downward flushing force to your SMDs.
These tweezers will then ensure the device is soldered flush to the PCB in one process.
Diamond cutoff wheels
If you don’t have diamond cutoff wheel, an auger bit file works well too.
