[sdiy] There is no fun analogue chips anymore!

[mark verbos]

On Jun 28, 2012, at 3:34 PM, Ingo Debus wrote:

> 
> Am 28.06.2012 um 21:16 schrieb Pete Hartman:
> 
>> Glad to see it's not as complicated as I had
>> thought from some long past exposure to things like "flowing solder
>> with a toaster oven".
> 
> Anyone here tried that? I just started with the pizza-oven method, first results look promising. You need a stencil for applying solder paste to the PCB, but apart from that the equipment is cheap (it's really a tiny pizza oven). Haven't done the really fine stuff though.
> 
> Ingo


I bought a convection toaster oven at Target for $60 and have very much success doing boards as big as 10" across. 
A stencil helps a lot, but is not required. For me, SMT is vastly superior to through hole. I do still use through hole for panel components and special parts (vactrols for instance).

Mark