November 22, 2005

Folks we have an OEM who designed a PWB with too small a land area for mounting a surface mount tantalum chip capacitor.  This design does not allow for replacing the capacitor via manual soldering with an iron since the part will be damaged if the iron touches the part body.  Is there a way to enlarge the existing land size by some type of solder on land piece.  I know they make such an item that folks use for replacement of damaged traces.  If the lands can be increased in size, 
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how does one do this and will a reliable solder connection result?