On 14/01/2012 01:52, geoff wrote:
In message , John
Rumm writes
On 13/01/2012 23:47, Theo Markettos wrote:

John wrote:
I was wondering what suggestions those of you who do this daily had to
offer?

Hot air. It makes it hugely easier. There are relatively cheap hot air
stations around... go to certain backstreets of cities in the developing
world and you can see people doing component level service on recent
TVs etc
there.


Not tried but, for example:

http://cpc.farnell.com/duratool/zd-9...md-rework-stat
ion/dp/SD01139
(I'm not sure I believe the listed temperature of '150' there)

No that does sound implausibly low... would not even melt leaded
solder. Not a bad price mind you given you can get a reasonable range
of nozzles for it.

I now have three of them, they are hot enough, they work. I have had a
couple of element burnouts, though. You only need the small (4mm?)
nozzle for normal work

Element burnouts in months of "all day" use, or early failures?



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Cheers,

John.

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