Homebrew PCBs

but how did you get the oil off after?
i mean this sounds very messy...

but a interesting idea to use another "heating medium" than air.
may be much faster and shorter heating time in oil because it stores more 
heat / doesn't insulate so well...

you put the circuit in when it was already hot?
but how to get it out not causing the parts to slide around (ok not so much 
a problem with through hole....)

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On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 10:07:33 -0400, Don Perry <mojo@...> wrote:

> 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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