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Re:Unboxing Our New Desktop Pick and Place Machine by thesmok on Thursday February 01, 2018 @07:54AM (#16281492)
If it takes more than an hour to place the components, your solder paste will likely flow all over the board and it will be pointless to reflow it.
Re:Unboxing Our New Desktop Pick and Place Machine by CamperBob2 on Thursday February 01, 2018 @04:56PM (#16286295)
That's not a big concern for prototyping. It will reflow just fine. There might be a few solder balls rolling around afterward, maybe a bridge or two. Most of the time, this means your stencil apertures were too big, or that the cut-rate Chinese solder paste wasn't the bargain that it looked like on AliExpress.

Slump is a problem if you're trying to run a six-sigma process in a factory, of course, but that's not what's being discussed here.