I need to build a charger for a small sealed lead-acid battery (12V,
2.3Ah, C/20) and was tempted to use the LT3652 until I realised it isn't available in a pin'ed DIL package. Is there anything with similar function that a hobbyist can deal with?
You can get small boards for surface mounting ordinary SM stuff on that bring the connections out to wire holes or onto pins. I don't know if such things are available for that type of package(*1). The soldering isn't difficult, clean and flux with a paste flux(*2), fix the chip in place with tape or a blob of glue, have a little bit of solder on your hot iron and quickly run it along the exposed conections. There are YouTube videos showing this technique.
(*1) Looks like they probably are, is there something suitable here (there seems to be an awful lot of variants):
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(*2) I used a non-acid plumbers flux as that is what I had. Washed the board well afterwards to remove an residue.
If you cant wait for another order, its possible to just solder strands of wire to each pin on an SMD, and when soldering to a board leave the leads long enough that the joints don't remelt.
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