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Papabravo said:Solder paste is applied to a bare board with a mask: sorta like silkscreening. The parts are place with a pick and place machine and the solder pastes helps hold the parts in place during the trip through the reflow oven.
What good is it? It is absolutely essential to surface mount manufacturing. It would be impossible without it.
dknguyen said:Yeah it would. What do you mean by what kind of paste? You don't realy need hot air though or solder paste for that matter...you can solder most components (except for thing slike BGAs) with solder and an iron.
madcitysw said:Yea, I did just bought a brand new solder station as well for like $60.00 that has a temp controlled tips. Since I did also have a hot air station, though it would be easier to solder those smds that I need to solder using the hot air instead of hand soldering them. Don't you still need some kind of flux to solder then hand anyway?
madcitysw said:Since I did also have a hot air station, though it would be easier to solder those smds that I need to solder using the hot air instead of hand soldering them. Don't you still need some kind of flux to solder then hand anyway?