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Michael Kennedy wrote:
To be fair desolder stations were incredibly expensive once and even
now secondhand reasonably recent Pace etc still fetch big money. I
ended up making my own. ;-)

What did you make your desolder station out of? I'd be interested to see
since I'd consider making my own as well.

Basically I wanted something I couldn't really find on the market - or
certainly at a price I could afford. So gleaned bits off Ebay, etc.

I like Antex handsets for soldering so wanted those. And easy selection
of two with different bit sizes. Auto switch off after a period of time -
I've set that at 5 hours.

A good buy on Ebay got a Pace SX-80 handset new. Another a Pace pump from
a non working base unit. All the electronics are home designed.
To keep the size of the main unit down the pump is in an external box.

Pic he- http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q...kies/Stat3.jpg

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