RE: [AH] Looking for desoldering station

From Lorne Hammond
Sent Sat, Mar 10th 2018, 17:58

also same boat. Hobby user level. I bought this which is at the cheapo =
end of things, mostly for a few personal repairs and doing all the =
boards in a large synth.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/S-993A-110V-90W-Electric-Vacuum-Desoldering-Pump=
-Solder-Sucker-Gun-In-US-/251876278039 metasonic and george mattson said =
desoldering stations are a waste
always plugging and  they just use hot air guns to blow the parts off =
and clear the thru-hole. I figure I'd just burn the boards and melt =
traces with my chops.
LOrne
-----Original Message-----
From: sines [mailto:xxxxx_xxxx@xxxxx.xx]=20
Sent: March-09-18 5:45 PM
To: analogue heaven <xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: Re: [AH] Looking for desoldering station

Im in the same boat. Let me borrow that when you=E2=80=99re done with =
it. :)


Todd

> On Mar 9, 2018, at 8:42 PM, David Bivins <xxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I'm about to undertake removing all the switches from a CR-8000 and =
think I need to take my relationship with tech gear to the next step and =
get a desoldering station. I don't need to do bulky jobs very often =
(this is the first very large project I've encountered), so I think the =
entry-level Hakko FR-300 is adequate despite the poor reviews (seems =
like heavy users are pushing it beyond its limits). But I wanted to =
check here first in case someone has recently upgraded and has something =
that I could purchase/inherit.=20
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> Also any advice is welcome. Again, I don't think I would use it that =
often; usually I use a hand pump or copper solder wick for one-offs.=20
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> Thanks,
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> David