i use stencils and vapor phase soldering personally but that's overkill; solder paste in a syringe and a hot air gun are sufficient for many jobs. i suggest getting junk PCBs and trying to rework random components on them without turning the PCB into char or melting stuff
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Replying to @alt_kia
using phase transition of a fluoropolymer liquid (Fluorinert) as a sort of thermostat. instead of an IR oven with a PID controller you rely on the fact that latent heat of condensation >> heat transferred by convection and radiation, and...
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Replying to @whitequark
ahh nice. what kind of machine do you use for that?
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I cobbled together a machine from the cheapest electric pot I found in a store in HK, a PID controller I had lying around, some metal junk as a base, and a solid state relay. search my earlier tweets it has photos
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and i saw the website for the fluid you said you used, nice, you can get them in various boiling points
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yep yep. can also use them to cool PCBs by submerging in the liquid, it's absurdly efficient AND it's an incredibly good dielectric. people cool CO2 lasers with it too
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yeah i knew about those dielectric engineered fluids but i didn't know soldering with them was that simple!
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it's the absolute best way of soldering stuff. literally the only way you can mess up is by overheating the liquid.
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