If you are soldering with paste, a stencil makes life a lot easier. Sure, you can apply paste by hand with a syringe, but a modern PCB might have hundreds or even thousands of pads. Like a lot of u… ...

[youtube= Above is a video detailing one method for populating a two sided surface mount PCB. We covered using a stencil to apply solder paste for a PCB a few weeks ago. In the comments there was a… ...

This "idiot proof" thermal paste stencil makes CPU installation easy. Whether you're building a gaming PC with an Intel or AMD processor, ... Why fret about slipping with your syringe, ...