Nicely put Frank.
With enough tenacity even at home you can repair stuff that you wouldn't believe possible.
Here's a picture of a 2mm square pressure sensor with 10 SMD pads hidden underneath, I had to fit this to a pcb and no way had a solder stencil.
So I bought some 0.3mm BGA solder balls and carefully placed one on each pad. I then reflowed them in my homebrew (sandwich toaster) reflow oven.
Turned the chip over and rubbed it on some plain A4 paper to level all the tops of the balls, then placed it on the pcb and reflowed it into place.
Job done :-)
Dave
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