Toaster Reflow Oven - Part 9 - It's raining components

In an attempt to find out whether or not the heat is spread evenly in the oven, I decided to attach multiple thermocouples to a large PCB and give it a go.
Fortunately I haven't been to the waste disposal center recently, so I still had a PCB from an old laptop in my junk drawer.

I tried to find some bare pads or large patches of solder on the board and stick the thermocouples in place with some aluminium tape.
Shortly after I turned the oven on, the outer two thermocouple came loose and detached from the board, crap. There seemed to be some temperature difference between the remaining two thermocouples; about 10 degrees Celsius. As the temperature approached 200 degrees C, some unfamiliar sounds came from the oven. Plonk... Plonk... I soon realized the solder on the bottom of the board was starting to melt and the larger components were starting to fall... Doh! Removing the hot board from the oven didn't do much good to it either...

Hmm, missing some bits here...

The CPU doesn't need those caps right? Right?

So that's one way to harvest a board for components.

Who wants some SMT electrolytic caps? Or some coils?

Or a whole bunch of ICs?

Some passives anyone?

So much for my first (accidental) reflow :)