Hello forum,
I've been doing a few boards, and after soldering using regular solder wire and a soldering iron, a year ago I switched to solder paste and hot air gun.
I've had good results, but for larger boards my hands get really tired after a while when applying solder paste from a syringe, manually.
So now I've purchased a Metcal DX-250 (and a SIL-AIR 15/D compressor). I know maybe I should go with stencil instead, but that seemed messy to me. Anyway, now that I've already purchased the DX-250 I'm certainly going to use it at least once so please bear with me!
The Metcal came with a syringe, that I could probably fill with solder paste and use.
However, it would be very much nicer if it were possible to buy solder paste already in a syringe, and have that syringe somehow be usable with my Metcal DX-250 without needing to any messy mixing/scooping.
Anyone got any ideas?
I can't seem to find a specification for the syringe that was included with the Metcal. I've attached a picture.
Are there industry standards for solder paste syringes? Which model is the one I got from Metcal?