>motivated by the Nuts and Volts article I went out and bought a $29 >Black and Decker toaster oven, and then from Digikey some of the >syringe solder paste ($40, you need the syringe plunger too). > >I am using something which appears like a dental pick to apply a >small dab of the solder paste on the pad, then carefully place the >device on the pads using a fine tweezer. I find it conventient to >squeeze a bit of the paste onto the ground plane of the board. > >toast for a couple minutes at 450 degrees or so -- something like 2 >to 3 minutes -- the only problem seems to be that if you remove the >board too quickly the parts can slip around a bit when the solder is >hot. > >if you are careful the process works beautifully. > >i've posted this on www.diyaudio.com, so far no takers. I would have loved to take a look at this, but what a stupid forum! No chance to find a post efficiently! Do you have a way for me to identify your post? And - I figure it's a video - no? TIA Markus
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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Toaster oven reflow for SMT devices
2003-09-17 by Markus Zingg