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Suppose I were looking for a ready-to-go reflow oven at some kind of reasonable price. Where would I start? Any recommendations?
Here's the rub... there are relatively inexpensive, COTS reflow ovens out there[1], and they do work - more or less. The problem is that many people find them to be more on the "less" side of that spectrum, without putting considerable work into upgrades and mods anyway. And once you take a cheap T962 off the shelf and start modding it, you might start to ask "why not just build my own from a toaster oven?"
The toaster oven conversion winds up being cheaper, or - at worst - a wash, from a price standpoint. And many people find that they get better results from the converted ovens than they do from a T962.
Unfortunately, the next "hop" up in quality in terms of commercial ovens winds up being a pretty big jump price wise.
I haven't tried this myself yet, but I have a friend who has both a T962 and a conversion oven (made from a Black and Decker convection oven, so a little pricier than the model cited in TFA), and he only actually uses his converted oven. I trust his opinion a lot, so if/when I decide to get a reflow oven, I'm leaning hard towards doing this.
[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Happybuy-Soldering-Machine-Infrared-A...