>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.

Wait a minute...these are real.  They are called convection reflow
ovens and the only difference is they are longer.  You can
have "zones" and a temperature profile (curve) as the board
goes through.  It's the kind of thing you need if you ever
get into BGA chips.

Now I know the idea works in reverse--I always suggested running pizzas
through the thing...then I read somewhere that someone was doing
that and they found that the residues had an effect on the solder
joints when they went back to using it to do boards...oh, well.

Barry

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