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When I was getting into the hobby I reflowed a number of boards by balancing them on a piece of tin flashing, holding it over a candle or alcohol burner, and tr
by wiml 5y ago
When I was getting into the hobby I reflowed a number of boards by balancing them on a piece of tin flashing, holding it over a candle or alcohol burner, and trying to seat-of-my-pants my way through the temperature profiles from the back of the datasheet. Yield wasn't great, but I got there, and it was definitely cheap!
- robbedpeter 5y agoWhen you need to reflow a board while you're living in a box next to the van down by the river... nice!
- jacquesm 5y agoDoesn't a candle lead to soot deposit?
- lmm 5y agoYes, but on the tin rather than the board.