[sdiy] Reflow revisited and a bit OT, sorry

[Thomas Strathmann]

On 8/29/10 00:02 , David Ingebretsen wrote:
>
> My son has at last arrived at a stage where he wants to tinker, experiment,
> and think about things mechanical and electronic. I couldn't be prouder :)
>
> He has a broken X-Box, presumably with the standard flaky solder joint
> problems. While the X-Box is clearly off topic, the desire to reflow the PCB
> is not.
>
> Can anyone point me to a How-To or give me some advice regarding how to
> reflow this PCB without investing $100s into some weird oven? I really
> didn't find anything in my search of the archives, although one of you is no
> doubt going to show me where I didn't look...
>
> You can chastise me here of off list for the off topic question which has
> probably been answered a dozen times. I can take it. I'm a man who knows how
> to use a soldering iron

This project uses a cheap "pizza oven" to do the job. 
http://thomaspfeifer.net/backofen_smd_reflow.htm
Maybe Babelfish or something will help you if you can't read German.

	Thomas