/diy/ - Do It Yourself

I have on my hobby study a soldering station, air gun, hotplate, and a DIY reflow oven (lidl mini oven + raspy with pico reflow). But sometimes I spend long periods living in hotels due to my work. For now, I will be in the office for a long while I think, and I'd like to start getting busy again with electronics, but I've been thinking of doing something like a portable electronics lab next time I have such projects.

I find soldering fun and relaxing but I thought maybe I should build something like pic related for my portable lab. Can you somehow use it for two-layer PCBs? Any ideas? It´s just for simple hobby stuff so fine details (brittleness, tension, mechanical stress, etc) are not really relevant to me, I just want a portable method to solder SMD components on two layered PCBs quickly while traveling.

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