I have a well used hot air gun (OK Industries SMT-1160) but I use my Metcal iron and hot tweezers a lot more. They have an infinite selection of tips for almost anything. They are expensive though, even used.
For us old farts with unsteady hands and bad eyes, a vacuum pickup, lots of tweezers and a binocular microscope are a huge help. A flux bottle with a dispensing needle tip and a bottle of Isopropyl Alcohol are musts too. I have some tiny solder, solder wick and solder paste for my reflow oven. The reflow oven is the bees knees if you are building a lot. Youth and delicate hands also helps, I have neither but I get by. Look at my qrz.com page for my setup and links to more info. 73, Mark W7MLG On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 12:33 PM Dauer, Edward <[email protected]> wrote: > I am thinking about trying my hand at building a kit with a bunch of > SMDs. I don’t yet know the gauge. Any suggestions about the brand or type > of hot air soldering gun I should buy? Any other tools I’ll need, like > narrow-gauge solder, wicks, whatever? > > Thanks, > > Ted, KN1CBR > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
