Hi guys, The Hakko 808 looks very much to me like the Denon Instruments Co. Ltd. SC-7000 desoldering tool. I wonder if there is some tie up between Hakko and Denon? Anyway the point of this post is that I find the SC-7000 excellent for desoldering stuff on PC boards. Continuous vacuum, and controllable tip temperature are the two major features of the SC-7000. Do be quick when using it, as lingering too long can result in a copper pad being lifted off the board.
However, it is not so good on glowbug stuff where components are soldered to tag strips or tube bases, and the volume of solder to be removed is much greater than on the typical PC board. Under these circumstances the vacuum tends to die because the slots in the plastic separator in front of the filter get quickly clogged. Then the nozzle fills with solder. A desoldering tool that handles the glowbug stuff a bit better is the very inexpensive GC Electronics "Solder Popper" (about USD37.00). I also have one of these. It consists of a manual desoldering pump mounted on a soldering iron with a hollow tip. Simple, inexpensive, and it works well. FWIW! 73 Kevin VK3DAP / ZL2DAP -- Kevin B. G. Luxford [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
