Terri, I know what your talking about when you say it's very tedious to wire 100's of wires from parts to boards, we do thousands a year for our customers. I haven't seen an adapter to accomplish your particular application and if there is one, I bet it would be expensive. One option, not much less expensive, is to have your board house make a panel of boards with pads for the SOIC on one side and the pads for the TSSOP on the other with via interconnects. You could then mount the parts on the panel, reflow them, bump the pads on the opposite side of the panel and once routed, place this part into the paste for reflow. This type of mod is more cost effective when you have larger quantities, so just a suggestion. Bill Westmoreland President, BEST, Inc. Phone (847) 797-9250 Fax (847) 797-9255 Email [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Houston, Terri Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 11:40 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [TN] TSSOP to SOIC Adapter for 8-pin devices Hi folks, We have some boards with an 8-pin TSSOP footprint for a part that is actually an 8-pin SOIC. I was wondering if anyone knows of a socket or adapter that we could use to translate from a too-big part to a too-little footprint. We've soldered jumper wires on one board, but with about 100 wrong-size locations to assemble, I was looking for a less tedious method. Appreciate any help you can offer. (By the way, we didn't design the boards.) Terri ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------