David VanHorn wrote:
>
> At 07:27 PM 7/1/01 -0400, Brandon Fosdick wrote:
> >Has anyone thought of making something like what the pizza delivery
> >places use? Put the board on a conveyer on one side, it goes through the
> >oven at a set rate and comes out the other side nicely baked. Seems like
> >it would be great for production work.
>
> It wouldn't be any huge deal to set up, the hard part would be to fab the belt.
> Steppers would control the rate through, and you could control the
> temperature profile as well.


I fixed a wire belt conveyor oven, it was used by
a printer for drying special inks on business cards.

They usually shake a lot, not good for melted solder.

What about a slowly rotating platter, ie a rotary
motion instead of a linear motion?? Or even rotate
the heating elements over a flat metal table??
That has a lot of possibilities. With a cheap toaster
oven we can do 4 boards in about 5 minutes, which is
fine, but a continuous production would be excellent.
-Roman

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