I’ve heard of people using electric toaster ovens for reflow work. There’s a few YouTube videos about it. Should work for baking tapes too. I think there was quite a discussion about it on cctalk a few years ago.
Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 11, 2023, at 11:52, John Herron via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > Maybe a dumb question but would an easy bake oven be a good device or are > they not good at holding temp control? > > I thought I had heard of a few folks using those for reflow jobs, etc. > Especially since there's not risk of using an oven you might want out of > later. > > The more I think about it though, the risk of a Fisher Price toy on > someone's important data sounds sort of stupid. But might be a cheap home > solution for less important data. > > >> On Fri, Mar 10, 2023, 5:30 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> >> wrote: >> >>> On 3/10/23 13:32, mike via cctalk wrote: >>> Chuck can you give a few details about 'baking' disks? >> >> I can tell you how I do it--an "oven" held at 58C +/- 0.5C with good air >> circulation. Mine is custom built, where the heat source is a 75W >> incandescent lamp, low-speed fan and PID controller. I've heard of some >> folks adapting food dehydrators for the purpose. >> >> I generally put stuff in for a day, then let things cool for a couple of >> hours. >>
