My reflow stations is setup up and ready for testing. The solder paste dispenser works better than I thought it would.

My first board was a surface mount practice board that has really terrible solder mask, but it did reflow in the oven successfully. I had a couple of bridged on the QFPs that was cleaned up quickly with the Hakko micro-soldering station. It was hard to gauge if I had too little or too much solder paste. On some of the small 0805 components I had too little, and a bit too much on the QFP. I will do a few more passes of these practice boards, then move up to some of the fine pitch stuff.

I will also do a few reflows on the hot plate to see how well that works.