Video of Solder Reflow in Progress

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Have a look at this great video footage that is over at Curious Inventor. It was recorded at a SMT soldering class where a skillet was used to heat the board to flow the solder paste. It still fascinates me how well the parts magically align themselves! If you are looking for soldering skillet information, have a look at the article we did about the Adafruit skillet. Another popular method is reflowing with a toaster oven.

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  1. Lol, us electronic geeks 😛 With the intensity in that room, most people would be like “WTF is wrong with these people?” xD


  2. That’s cool footage! That was the Currious Inventor Class held at the Freeside Atlanta Hackerspace.


  3. Nice how everything just floats into its position and the bridge almost goes away on its own.


  4. At 1:40 till end it is clearly visible, that solder makes a bridge between middle contacts of the chip. I wander – what is the right way to remove that excess solder.


  6. I use this method but on a cloth-soldering iron. It works just like in the video!




  9. Thank you Alan!

    Do I apply solder wick during reflow process or I wait for everything to cool down and then try to heat the problematic area?


  10. After everything is cool. You would apply the wick and heat with a normal soldering iron, the excess solder that is causing the bridge will be removed.


  11. Never done any SMT soldering, looks interesting and pretty tough.

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