Martin Klingensmith wrote:
> You've got me interested.

FWIW, *me too*!  I happened to go into FRYS this afternoon, and by chance
wandered down
the "toaster oven" aisle (!)... I saw an el-cheapo "Maxi-Matic" 650W,
2-element job on
sale for $18 (!).. so I said, hey.. if it ain't up to snuff for SMT reflow,
I can always
use it to toast my bagels in the morning!!  Well, this little guy gets up to
300C in 7
minutes flat.  It's actually just a little slow getting from ambient to
100C, but I'm
thinking that's not going to matter too much.   I'm just going to do a
little controller
with a thermocouple, PIC and a triac; putz with the temp profile after I
settle on what
kind of solder paste I'm going to use, and just see what kind of result I
get.
This whole approach appeals a lot to me, since my eyesight isn't what it
used to be, and
the idea of hand soldering fine-pitch stuff just seems likely to cause a lot
of frustration.
So, I'm on the experimental path!   I'll post my results soon!
Jim

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