Ah...thank you for the link! I never would have known about the steel wool. At least I know I wasn't the only one who thought it worthy enough to try. Anyone actually succeed with this design? Any suggestions about solder paste? Keep them simple as I've never used it before :) Josh -- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. -Douglas Adams David Harris wrote: > The originator did descibe putting some steel wool into the nozzle to help > the air heating. This is described at the parent page: > http://www.usbmicro.com/apps.html which is html and includes the pictures. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.