hand-soldering teeny tiny chips!

Step 5 Check your work

Now you can tilt the chip up on and look at the connection points, to see if you've made all of the connections successfully. Zoom in enough that you can see if the solder is going all the way from pin to pad or not. For the ones that are not, add a little more solder to the pad and wiggle the iron up and down until you get it to bridge, like a stalagtite meeting a stalagmite.