Is it the CO-Z 858D Rework Station ?? On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 11:35 AM gregebert <gregeb...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Reviving this thread... > > I've spent some of the holiday season using hot-air soldering for > surface-mount devices, and the results are far superior to hand-soldering. > With good solder paste (I'm using ChipQuick 63/37; there are several other > brands) and placing small dabs on solder pads with the included syringe. > You dont need to use a stencil; you probably will want one if you are doing > several builds of the same board AND you are going to mount all components > at the same time. > > If the PCB has good solder-masking, the solder paste will flow from the > masked area towards the pad when heated, so shorts are unlikely to occur > unless you used way too much paste. I've also seen some self-centering of > SMT parts while the solder is molten, so you dont need to hold the part > in-place while soldering as long as the airflow velocity from your hot-air > machine is low enough. > > BTW, I'm using a cheap (40 USD on Amazon) reflow device that holds > temperature quite well; adjustable airflow is a MUST-have feature. > > If you are fearful of doing SMT work because it looks too small, I suggest > you give it a try. Find a PCB from a discarded device and test it out > yourself. > > Thru-hole parts should still be soldered with a traditional hand iron. > > On Saturday, June 13, 2020 at 1:03:48 PM UTC-7 Bill Notfaded wrote: > >> Metcal 100% I'll never go back again. We use them at work to solder for >> space applications under scopes... Well I don't but they do in the >> factories. Since they turned me on and I bought a 5k series I'm totally >> sold. It's the bomb period! >> >> Bill >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "neonixie-l" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/2587ced5-a9c2-49c8-9b48-6ac2ecc9eeaan%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/2587ced5-a9c2-49c8-9b48-6ac2ecc9eeaan%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/CAC%3Dcyqe2_J0v9DsN8PKVR8VkRGTFAM26wNv-uz_6H%3Dr%2B%2BsyiMA%40mail.gmail.com.
