Solder Stencil Vacuum Table - The Byte Sized Engineer | DigiKey

When it comes to assembling and soldering PCBs, there are a lot of different approaches you can take. Sometimes, Zach hand-places and hand-solders each individual component, but if he has a lot of boards to do, it's definitely faster to order a solder stencil. However, solder stencils can be tricky to get right. In his experience, if he doesn't have them perfectly flat, he’ll often deposit too much solder paste, which causes problems down the road. In this video Zach tries to solve this problem by building a solder stencil vacuum table. Custom macropad -    • Custom Macropad - The Byte Sized Engineer ...   Maker Link: https://www.digikey.com/en/maker/proj... Learn more: Download all design files for this project from the github repo https://github.com/bytesizedengineeri... Maker.io - https://www.digikey.com/en/maker DigiKey’s Blog – TheCircuit https://www.digikey.com/en/blog Connect with DigiKey on Facebook   / digikey.electronics   And follow us on X https://x.com/digikey Watch more byte sized engineering project videos    / bytesized   Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:42 Tried and true method 02:33 CNC downdraft tables 03:31 Let’s sketch out a design 06:11 Test fitting the prototype 08:33 Comparing against the previous method 09:46 Does it work better? 10:54 Want to build your own?