Reading your letter, I thought I might throw this out to you, years ago
I used to reflow poor solder cards by heating peanut oil, yes peanut
oil, in a flat pan. It can take the heat and melt solder. I have not
done it a long time. But it worked. I am sure you need to take
cautions for burns and fires. I use my grill outside for questionable
oven/wife work. Sounds a bit strange but it beat chasing intermittent
cold solder bugs. The cards had pins not flow through holes, TTL and
RTL ckts. Just a thought. - Perry
Markus Zingg wrote:
> >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
>
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