True! But two things save us and make DIY SMD reasonable:
- With practice we can go down to surprisingly small components. It's less about precision work and more about having an intuition about heat flow and surface tension which let the components align themselves.
- When components are too small or simply impossible (or it is beyond my knowledge) to solder with an iron, we can always just use an oven :) Which is entirely reasonable to do either at home / in the garage as they can be build very cheaply, or locally at a friend's or a fab-lab type deal.
- With practice we can go down to surprisingly small components. It's less about precision work and more about having an intuition about heat flow and surface tension which let the components align themselves.
- When components are too small or simply impossible (or it is beyond my knowledge) to solder with an iron, we can always just use an oven :) Which is entirely reasonable to do either at home / in the garage as they can be build very cheaply, or locally at a friend's or a fab-lab type deal.