If you do a lot of SMD soldering, a reflow oven is the fastest and most efficient way to get all those tiny components attached to your PCB. [Frank Zhao] saw the reflow ovens we featured here over ...

With reflow soldering, sometimes close is good enough. At the end of the day, the home gamer really just needs a hot plate or an old toaster oven and a calibrated Mark I eyeball to get decent results.

This especially applies to actually broken connections on your PCB, which blanket reflowing ... That said, since most full-fat reflow ovens start at around $60 on Amazon and can easily climb ...

The Electronics Lab is home to a wide variety of electrical manufacturing equipment, including soldering irons, desoldering stations, a PCB mill, a reflow oven, and every consumable necessary to build ...