I suggest you back through the PICLIST archives, I think there was lots of
discussion.  Also, you might be interested in the "toaster oven for SMT" stuff
--- look at:           E-Z_Bake@yahoogroups.com   Its really quiet, but people
were baking boards successfully -- I think we are still waiting for the
definitive project with a PIC based temperature profiler/controller.
David

Josh Koffman wrote:

> 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
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>
> 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.
>
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