I'm not sure, this stuff looks as though it is designed for using with solder screens. The important thing from a hobby point of view will be what is the wetting temperature, some of these water soluble ones want 250 C and some 350 C.

I get the feeling that the more expensive $55.00 one might actually work out cheaper, if you are going to make a lot of boards. With SMD stuff you don't actually require that much solder, and as you won't be putting your boards through a pick and place machine (where the solder helps to keep the components on the board whilst having chips spat at the board at great speed), or journey on an infra red ovens conveyer belt. 

 From an experimental point of view, I suppose it's worth trying, but I'd get hold of a data sheet first to find out its' temperature and if it requires any special fluxes.

Colin

:: I read an article on using a toaster oven to solder SMT components
:: to a
::
:: PCB.  Since I am very much a hobby engineer at this point (I make
:: my
:: money in software, which is the day job) I would like to try this
:: out.
::
:: However, they recommend getting the solder paste in syringes from
:: digi-key -- and the price I found there was $44.00 for a syringe...
::
:: This seems outrageous.  I think I found a source for 35g of the
:: material
:: (which should be good for experimenting with at least) for $10 or
:: so.
::
:: The question is, is this stuff what I want?  The link I found is:
::
:: http://www.shopeis.com/b2c/b2c/init.do

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