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I recently had a need to stress-relieve some home made springs and learned that a toaster oven can be used as a relatively inexpensive annealing oven. I also found some info on using a particular model as a reflow "furnace" for making your own surface mount print circuit boards (here). So I did some browsing and found one on Amazon for a reasonable price -- this one . But I noticed they had some with cosmetic defects for a much lower price, about half off. I ordered one for a little less than $29 and got free shipping to boot. When it arrived I took a close look at it, thinking I might need to repair a broken foot or the like; but I didn't find anything obviously wrong with it!
My wife thinks it's too nice to use as an annealing oven but we've never found the need for one of these things. While looking good It will anneal hardened steel, stress-relieve springs and reflow circuit boards just fine
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My wife thinks it's too nice to use as an annealing oven but we've never found the need for one of these things. While looking good It will anneal hardened steel, stress-relieve springs and reflow circuit boards just fine
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