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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">So back in 2019, we had a really great surface mount soldering party where we brought out a bunch of gear and tools to do surface mount soldering of our Egg Timer rocketry kits.. and it was a really big hit:</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Some of you were asking about a decent/cheap soldering &amp; reflow station.. but didn't have the money for an expensive Weller or Hakko... so here's the same family of hardware that I'm using, and I can highly recommend this hardware. I've been using something very similar since 2015 with zero reliability problems.. and being able to temp control up over 6-700 F, with GREAT heat capacity (be able to solder ground planes and heat syncs):</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">If things keep getting better in the region (wiht COVID), maybe we'll be able to have another SMT soldering party.</p>
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