Happen to know if a Hair Dryer would produce enough heat for this?  I
know heat guns are inredibly hot so I'm wondering if it's really
necessary for moving the solder paste.

Nick Veys / nick@veys.com / www.veys.com

] Regarding the toaster oven technique, I have seen SMDs
] soldered by placing a single bead of solder paste on all of
] the legs, down the entire length of the chip. Just one bead
] of solder per row of legs (not sure if I'm making sense
] here). Then heat the chip with a heat gun (or toaster) & the
] solder will separate between each leg (due to surface
] tension?) & solder each leg to the board. Saves time because
] you only have to put down one bead of solder. It looks very
] slick, as it is such a crude method but it works so well. If
] you were good at it you could probably solder a 32 pin PLCC
] to a board in less than a minute.
]
] Steve

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