I get my solder stencils from oshstencils.com, they are AWESOME. I bought a precise temperature controlled reflow oven on ebay for $250: http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/281272854439?lpid=82&chn=ps On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Cere Misc <cere.misc(a)gmail.com> wrote:

you can solder parts like that with an ordinary soldering iron, i can show you how. It's not hard. Do you have a PC board made yet? I'm assuming you have two or three chips per board. If you have like a dozen chips per board you might prefer to do it with stencils, which you can cut from transparent folder covers (thesis binder cover) with a laser cutter. Then once you have the solder paste in place, you put the chips on with tweezers and rest the board on a hotplate for 60 seconds. the other option is to dispense the solder paste with a 3d printer, like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgXtRDVvhdU -jake On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, Cere Misc wrote: So there's this chip that I just gotta have for a project I am working > on. The only problem is that it seems like EVERYTHING in IC form now it > packaged in these > teensy little surface mount chips. I don't have a small enough soldering > iron and I'd rather not hassle with trying to make it work with my shitty > equipment. > Wondering if sudo or Noisebridge is set up for a solder reflow oven with > an accurate temperature control? Also, I am not totally clear about how I > create a > silkscreen soldering setup for a given PCB design. Does anyone on this > list have a lot of experience with this? > > Thanks, > Cere > >