SMD soldering

[Jeremiah Davis]

I'm going to be doing a little bit of pcb work soon. Do we have a reflow oven at the shop? I can't remember from the little bit I've looked around the electronics lab.

[Michael Englehorn]

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Depending on the pin pitch, you likely don't need a reflow oven to do
SMD work. The only thing I can think of off the top of my head that
really requires an oven would be BGA packages, otherwise you can use
drag soldering to great effect. :)

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[Jeremiah Davis]

Someone had mentioned that there was a hot air gun for reflow/solder removal when I posed this question awhile back, unfortunately when I was there last night Scott said that belonged to a member and had been removed. I know there's no reflow oven either.

I know that I could probably figure out how to do the little bit of work I need with drag soldering, but I honestly haven't had much luck yet and don't want to wreck my boards or parts. 

Is there any interest in having a toaster reflow oven or something else like that at the shop?

I'm about to consider just building one myself but for the amount of work I need to do it's a bit silly even if it's not that huge of an expense.

[Jim Wygralak]

I thought there was a toaster oven around there that was designated "Not for Food"

On top of the cabinets over the sink in the classroom, maybe?

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[Steve McGrath]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 02:12:22PM -0700, Jeremiah Davis wrote:
> Someone had mentioned that there was a hot air gun for reflow/solder
> removal when I posed this question awhile back, unfortunately when I was
> there last night Scott said that belonged to a member and had been removed.
> I know there's no reflow oven either.
>

We used to have an SMD rework station in the classroom, but it's owner took it home.

I believe we have another one now though, unless it was also taken home. It belongs to Steve Skalko, I'd try to talk to him about it.

[Scott Hill]

And I totally missed that Steve’s rework station is in a box on the electronics bench. How I don’t know, it’s a big red Sparkfun box, how do you miss that?