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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Toaster oven reflow for SMT devices

From: Markus Zingg <m.zingg@...>
Date: 2003-09-20

>I hope this link takes -- it's a pic of the toaster oven PCB in
>progress -- as you can see one of the 2k resistors slid a little bit
>when I removed the board "hot" from the oven.
>http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?
>s=&threadid=13023&perpage=15&highlight=toaster&pagenumber=2

Thanks for the link - looks good :) Do you also have a picture of the
oven itself? I'm asking cause the oven you use is likely not to be
available where I live (europe) but a similar one might would do.

Then, is there a time saving in doing it this way? I could imagine
that placing the parts onto solder paste and especially moving the pcb
into the oven might be terribly critical - no? So far I hand soldered
all my boards but I agree that it takes quite a while so I'm of course
interested in potential improvements.

Markus