On 3/11/15 10:17 AM, Philip Odom wrote: > Second on the Metcal stuff, if you want to spend the money. BUT pretty > expensive. > > I have a Hakko FX-888D at home,
Do these have hot air as well? (Is it as useful as I imagine?) I do hot-plate reflow fairly successfully (down to 0603, 0.5mm and QFN48) without stencils, just squirting solder on the pads. I usually rework QFNs by reheating with my firestarter pencil iron and solder-braid sucking the excess out. (Yes, I know: it's a horrible stone-age process, but it's the best I know how to do so far.) But I have trouble removing / modifying multi-pin things, because I can't get the whole thing hot enough at once. (I have a friend who just puts a big glob of solder over the whole part and gets 'em off that way, but daaayum, that's beyond my skill. He does QFN with a big ol' 40W pencil iron, dragging packages around on a pool of solder by surface tension!) So it seems like if I had hot air, I could heat up a package quickly and grab it with tweezers or vacuum. Not so? Or is the tool to do that reliably just really expensive? I was looking at the Aoyue 968A+... -- Mersenne Law LLP · www.mersenne.com · +1-503-679-1671 - Small Business, Startup and Intellectual Property Law - 9600 S.W. Oak Street · Suite 500 · Tigard, Oregon 97223
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