Homebrew PCBs

Nathan:

Biggest thing for me is that my heat just blew the darn part right off the
board. I also could not get a consistent temperature at the joint. Moving
the heat source even a few millimeters would change the temperature
drastically. I tried applying glue to hold the part down (bad part about
this is you can't fix it later), but I found that the parts were so small,
applying more glue than is needed would coat the pad with plastic cement. I
gave up on this method and went for reflow oven or hand solder. I can hand
solder almost anything now. The Curious Inventer You Tube is excellent for
this.


Chris

On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 9:00 PM, nathan_h_tna <nathanhooyagroups@...>wrote:

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> I have some boards with smt parts that will really be a pain to solder with
> my iron. I've been thinking about getting a cheap soldering station, like
> this one:
> http://www.amazon.com/Aoyue-968-Digital-Rework-Station/dp/B000HDG0AO, but
> I don't know if it will work well or how long it will last. (anybody have
> personal experience in this area?)
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