Well, we have a Wiki article on the topic which does pretty much all of that. I think our user Dennis Nedry got it started and several people have added to it. It may be that the 68kmla Wiki is not as noticeable to folks as the forum postings. Perhaps what we really need is a sticky in Compact Macs and maybe Mac II, Quadra & Centris pointing folks at the Wiki.

I think I'll go edit the Wiki article to modify my recommendation of a pair of 15 watt pencils. In my experience those have always been fine for surface mount resistors and caps and such. But the decoupling caps on the Mac board seem to sink a lot of heat into the ground and/or power planes and one either needs extra patience with the 15 watt pencils, or a higher wattage pencil. Personally, I'm fine with using extra patience, but folks need to be forewarned, because impatience makes them do things like jam the pencil tip into the pad and twist and such.