Homebrew PCBs

>

That  looks more labor intensive than this method that works for me:

Put the pcb in the magnifying glass tool and collect a tiny ball of solder on
the tip of a 15w $5 radio shack soldering iron (basically solder held in the
1mm indent of the tip) and touch the smt ic pin+board junction.  Trying to
put the tiny solder wire on the pin produces way too much melted solder in my
experience, plus I worry about overheating the IC.

I think I want to add a soldering iron attachment to a home-made USB CNC
device for precise and automatic soldering.

Is getting boards done with soldering very expensive?

Ted




> > > > Has anybody ever used a soldering iron (in place of the drill,
> > etc...)
> > > > in a CNC (home-made or otherwise) to solder SMT ICs?
> > > >
> > > > Ted
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > most likely not because there are WAY better methods to bulk solder
> > the
> > > whole board.
> > >
> > > ST
> >
> > Any simple home brew methods ?
>
> Solder paste and toaster oven:
>
> http://www.seattlerobotics.org/encoder/200006/oven_art.htm
>
> Leon
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> My low-cost Philips LPC210x ARM development system:
> http://www.geocities.com/leon_heller/lpc2104.html
>

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