<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> doing the solder balls by hand is an extreme headache, but you can get BGA reballing frames reasonably cheaply where you clamp the part in the lower section after applying a little flux, clamp the stencil in the upper section, they're spring loaded so it presses the stencil down, then you pour a ton of solder balls into the top and roll them around, then it has a little channel in the corner where you can tip the excess balls back into the container. pretty painless.</p>
