> Sorry... hot air pencil looks like a little soldering iron,
> but it blow a gentle stream of hot air.

DARN HOT air, as you can well imagine. And "gentle" enough to blow little
parts off the PCB...


> Solder paste is like solder, but it is
> the consistency of...
> of....of....

Toothpaste?

Imagine a mix of paste flux and solder "dust".

> well it can flow, but is very stiff.  You can dispense it
> from a syringe like
> thing with a decent size nozzle.  You put some paste on each
> pad where the part
> will be, lay the part on the paste, and use the hot air
> pencil to reflow the
> paste (melt it.. like how solder melts).


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