<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(68,68,68)">I've found myself avoiding the inevitable when shopping for kits. But I recently came across a term I hadn't heard before: "Reflow Oven". I looked it up and found a wonderful tutorial that has simply opened up this part of the world to me. Here's a link to something similar: <a href="http://makezine.com/2015/04/15/diy-open-source-reflow-oven/">http://makezine.com/2015/04/15/diy-open-source-reflow-oven/</a></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 8:36 PM, AlanP <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alan.p@orcon.net.nz" target="_blank">alan.p@orcon.net.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 25/05/2017 9:42 p.m., <a href="mailto:sleepy_dog@gmx.de" target="_blank">sleepy_dog@gmx.de</a> wrote:<br>
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btw, for those shying away from SMT so far,<br>
I liked eevblog's tutorials when I started with that: (like vid #3 and<br>
later in that list)<br>
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My first SMD board was a simple, 3 transistor fuzz pedal. Laid out and kitted by someone else.<br>
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I honestly found the hardest part to be identifying which of the 3 transistors were the NPN and PNP ones -- the guy had just taped all of them to a piece of paper. Wound up calling my brother to eyeball them, and then buying a magnifying glass the next day.<br>
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They weren't hard to *solder*, mind you, just to identify.<br>
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-- <br>
Alan Podjursky<br>
"When in doubt, use brute force." -- Ken Thompson</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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