[sdiy] SMT in a toaster oven

[jays at aracnet.com]

Sometime this year I plan on giving it a try. I got one of these and have a toaster oven ready to go. Just haven't had the time to put it together yet. When I do I'll post something.

http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=81

Jay S.

mark verbos wrote:

> I don't know why this message doesn't show up, sorry if you get it 4  
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> I just tried using a small convection toaster oven to reflow some SMT  
> parts.
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> Woah! It work perfectly.
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> This circuit board is about 6" x 8" and FILLED with discrete parts.  
> Soldering it by hand takes me about 20 hours of labor and looks like  
> shit. I stenciled solder paste on it and placed all the parts by hand  
> in about an hour and a half, reflowed it in 90 seconds. It looks like  
> a machine did it. It's amazing. $60 black and decker toaster oven,  
> $100 stencil and $18 solder paste. I got the stencil done by advanced  
> circuits along with my $33 each PCB, but you can get them cheaper from  
> some other places. I used about 10% of that solder paste. I think I'll  
> buy a bigger container now that I know it works.
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> Do all of you SMT guys do this?
> 
> Mark
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