> anyone have any further advice on not-so-mass production that doesn't 
> involve one at a time connections with an iron?

I switched from hand-soldering to using plastic stencils ( 
http://www.smtstencil.co.uk/ ), placement still by hand, and reflow with 
a IR-bottom-heater plus paint stripper. For second-side-components I use 
the paint stripper for global pre-heating and a hot-air rework station 
for the actual soldering.

Works fine, but hand-placement is still a lot of work (and error-prone). 
I would love to have a table-top placement machine, but both the price 
(~ E 12000 2nd-hand) and the size (I don't have much room left) are 
still killers.

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