A Drop-In Controller Replacement For Commercial Reflow Ovens
If you need a reflow oven, you can very easily head down to Walmart or Target and pick up a toaster oven for fifteen bucks or so. Even without any control electronics, a bone-stock toaster oven works...
View ArticleTouch Screen Reflow Oven Pulls Out all the Stops
We’ve seen plenty of simple reflow ovens, and there’s an excellent chance that some of the people reading these words have even thrown their own together. A minimal example isn’t much more than a old...
View ArticleBuilding A Compact Reflow Oven With Halogen Lamps
Very often, particularly on the Internet, we’re fooled into thinking bigger is always better. The fact remains that this isn’t always the case. When it comes to reflow ovens, for example if you’re...
View ArticleCan You Use an Easy-Bake Oven for Reflow Soldering?
The answer is yes, yes you can. As long as you have one made after about 2011, at least. In the video after the break, [Blitz City DIY] takes us briefly through the history of the venerable Easy-Bake...
View ArticlePCB Toaster Oven Solders Your Boards
Using a toaster oven to reflow PCBs isn’t anything new, but just using a toaster oven has some limitations. Making toast isn’t as complex as reflowing PCBs. [Nabil] decided to modify an oven to get...
View ArticleHalf The Reflow Oven You Expected
Toaster oven reflow projects are such a done deal that there should be nothing new in one here in 2025. Take a toaster oven, an Arduino, and a thermocouple, and bake those boards! But [Paul J R] has...
View ArticleFrom Burnt to Brilliant: A Toaster’s Makeover
Appliances fail, but that doesn’t mean it’s the end for them. This impressive hack from [solopilot] shows the results possible when not just fixing but also improving upon its original form. The...
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