The poor man´s solder reflow oven [Hands On]

Last time I tried soldering small resistors was an experience, I´ll tell you what. They were almost as likely to stick to my soldering iron as they were to stick to the board, and I burned plenty of them in half. Admittedly, I don´t have the world´s best soldering station. In fact, what I have is a junky old pencil iron, not much better than what you´d buy at RadioShack- no adjustable temperature control and no replaceable tips. I also don´t have US $500 to invest in upgrading my station, but even if I did, it wouldn´t help much. I´m getting older-and so are my eyes. The solution was obvious: Build a reflow oven!