I think this link has been tossed around before - sorry if it's a repeat.
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/present.php?p=Reflow%20Skillet
These guys did a study of the best reflow gizmo and found it to be $30 skillet!
gene
----- Original Message -----
From: Dave N6NZ
Date: Friday, March 2, 2007 1:11 pm
Subject: gEDA-user: home made hot plate
To: gEDA user mailing list
> Seeing DJ's hot plate photo brought to mind a link I once saw,
> where a
> guy built a home-brew SMT hot plate. I can't find the link, but
> as I
> recall, he used a few low-ohm high-watt power resistors epoxied
> to a
> piece of aluminum sheet. He drove it with a 0-30V bench supply
> and
> controlled the temperature manually by varying the voltage.
>
> Seems to me that one should be able to build a pretty good hot
> plate
> that way for not a lot of money. Although I would think that
> copper
> might give more uniform heat spreading than aluminum (at much
> greater
> expense, however, unless you get lucky). And a thermostatic
> temperature
> control shouldn't be hard.
>
> -dave
>
>
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