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by thesmok 3066 days ago
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.
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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.