Recommended · for some experience
Surface Mount (SMD) Hot Air Soldering
Why people recommend it
Shows surface-mount parts soldered with paste and hot air, with components pulling themselves into place as the solder melts, which people find convincing.
Watch for: The self-alignment moment is around 2:45
In their words
I soldered these connectors onto the PCBs by paste and hot-air (you can check out a quick video on what hot-air looks like here).
Shamtam on electronics.stackexchange.com, May 2013. CC BY-SA.
