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Finally, put the board on a hot plate to melt the solder. Hot means 180°C in my case. Here's a before and after comparison.

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Dr. Hax 2y ago

Then, unless you did it perfectly the first time, fix all your bridged pins and/or pins that are not connected.

It's hard to get the right amount of solder paste on there. This is also true if you are using a stencil!

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Dr. Hax 2y ago

If you have any through hole components (or as I like to call them, normal components), put those on last.

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