Spoty micro-dot solder paste syringe dispenser

Name: Spoty micro-dot solder paste syringe dispenser
SKU: 19000
Price: 24.95 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.40 (10 reviews)

(10 Reviews)

With this tool you can precisely dispense extreme small dots of solder paste, even for the tiny 0402

Designed by Albert van Dalen in Netherlands

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With this tool you can precisely dispense extreme small dots of solder paste, even for the tiny 0402

For the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, you can purchase here; for other countries, please use Elecrow. Although this solder paste dispenser is cheap and uncomplicated, the Spoty works better for s…

Extra solder paste option

You can also buy the extra solder paste option, where one syringe is filled with 4 grams high quality type T4 soldering paste from Chip Quik. Then you can get started right away without having to buy additional solder paste elsewhere:

To give an impression of how much you can do with 4 grams: Not more than 3mm length of the solder paste in the syringe is needed for these three boards:

Examples

I've used the syringe dispenser for assembling the Arduino SAMD21 board SAM 15x15: The SMD package 0402 is easy to do, see R1 and R2:

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Review Breakdown

Average Ratings

Product: (4.60)

Documentation: (4.10)

Shipping: (4.30)

Communication: (4.60)

Richard | Aug. 16, 2022

Good product. good shipping into and packing .

The Product is well packed .Practical and easy to use . Communion with buyer was fast and efficient

Eric | Jan. 8, 2022

Works Well

Invest in some time to get familiar with how it behaves. first couple uses were a bit clumsy, but use became much smoother as i became familiar with how it behaves.

Ricardo | Dec. 15, 2021

Good seller

Not tested yet but it look a good quality. Shipping without tracking number is a little risky, anyway, I get it and I am satisfied.

David | Sept. 14, 2021

Bottom line: it works

It works. Installing the syringe is a fiddly procedure, but it’s simple and it works. Most of the alternatives seem to be complicated things with motors and pumps, so I consider it a winner.

Took just one week to arrive in Arizona. Whoever is in charge of making sure the international mail takes forever is not doing their job.

Eric | May 24, 2021

Great product

I love this neat little device! It does a fantastic job dispensing controlled amounts of solder paste.

James | May 6, 2021

Fantastic

These are fantastic. With a small enough tip, you can almost dispense one tiny sphere at a time. By far the best solution I've found for placing solder paste on supper tiny SMD pads.

Response from Albert van Dalen | May 6, 2021

I'm happy to know

Richard | March 7, 2021

Works great for applying very precise amounts of paste

I found once loaded this was very easy and natural to use, I was able to apply small amounts of paste (I used a chipquik T5 paste ) The instructions and videos are great, my only reason for not awarding 5 stars is that its quite fiddly to load the syringe and get the spring in the correct position - I think I will try adding a small washer as one of the other reviewers suggested, but its minor - its a great cost-effective solution for applying paste

Jeffrey | Jan. 5, 2021

Works exactly as described

The product works well and as described. I have successfully used it to add paste to several circuit boards. The only challenge is getting the spring on the syringe inserted properly without over stressing the lever arm. It takes a little practice, but otherwise, it works well.

Thomas | Oct. 8, 2020

great product - easy to use - precise for 0.65 pitch

Meanwhile i did about 10 board using the dispenser and it's amazing how precise i could put solder paste on 0.65 pitch pads - great deal to me - thx
two little things to mention:
- installing the syringe with the spring needs some training
- cleaning the needle after use is a must - tried to protect the tip by sticking it into rubber doesn't made it after 3 days storage
However this is more to make a better picture rather than pointing to disfunction or bad design - the product is absolute great!

Gwendolyn | Aug. 6, 2020

A wonderful design!

I build amateur radio kits, and more and more of them are being made with surface-mount components. Some of them have a mixture of SMD and thru-hole components, and most of those pre-solder the surface-mounted parts to the board for you. But more and more often, these kits have fewer and fewer thru-hole parts and more SMD. I've had one kit that was about 85% SMD and have a new one that's nearly completely SMD. There's fewer and fewer that pre-mount the SMD components for you, so you need to develop the skills and get the tools to build these kits.

When I set up my workbench a few years back, I still had not done any SMD work, but I knew it was rapidly approaching. So I started acquiring the tools to work on these parts -- a hot-air pencil station, a programmable soldering hot plate, tweezers for holding the components, and a microscope so I could even SEE them. The old magnifier with a ring light around it on a spring arm just wasn't enough, and I hate those huge magnifiers that go on your face like glasses. So a fairly decent electronic microscope with an LED display helped immensely. But applying solder paste was a real issue.

If you don't use a stencil, you need to have some way of applying individual dots of paste to the board. Solder paste IS sold in little air-piston syringes for this purpose, but the plungers to squeeze it out onto the board are nearly universally uncomfortable to use, and most don't even hold in place in the syringe, so they're constantly dropping out when you set them down. Powered dispensers were expensive, powered by air compressors and vacuum pumps. But finally, someone came out with an electronic extruder that didn't use compressed air, it used a stepper motor and a microcontroller. It works very well, but it's really a pain to load and clean up when you're done for a while, and can be very wasteful of solder paste. It's a shame to have to put it all together just for a few parts, or for a short period of assembly. If you have to assemble boards all day, it's perfect, but just for a couple of hours? Overkill.

So when I saw this on Tindie, I jumped at it! It's small enough that it's light and easy to use, holds just enough paste for a short session of kitbashing, and is easy to load and clean up afterwards. It's also very affordable! I just got it a couple of days ago, and put it together in anticipation of starting a new build, and I'm very excited at the simplicity of the design.

IF there's only a couple of nits I'd pick, add to the documentation that all those vertical spaces in the syringe clip are so you can fill the syringe with a fair bit of paste, and move it inward towards the back as you use it up. It isn't absolutely intuitive, and it looks like you're just supposed to snap it in place at the rearmost slot. I figured it out, but some might need a more explicit direction. Also, I'd add one more part: a small washer, to fit between the spring and the spot on the dispenser where the spring must press against. That'd make it easier to pull back so the syringe can be popped into place, and would keep the spring from pressing directly on the plastic, maybe damaging it over time. I plan to do that with mine.

But other than that, it looks like a fantastic tool, and I plan to use it soon, now that the heatwave seems to be breaking here and I feel more amenable to working with things that melt metal.

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