Hi, Time ago I ordered an Aoyue 968A+ rework station and for what I´ve done for the moment, It works alright. I´ve repaired SMD components (even 0402 size) succesfully but when I try for example to get out an I/O port of a pc motherboard... I simply can´t. I have to say that I have no flux applied, but I´ve seen a lot of people getting ps/2 ports, usb ports etc. with a hot air gun.
All I get when heating the area I want to desolder, it´s get the components hot... The tin doens´t melt unless I litteraly put the heating gun touching the motherboard wich I think isn´t a good idea because the tin could get inside the heating gun...
I tried heating at 240ºC, 250ºC, even at nearly 400ºC (I´m not proud of that try, it was just because I was desperate to get that component out...)
The air pressure it´s always at max. As a result I think that this station is not intended to get through hole components out at all.
I saw a desoldering gun for other aoyue machines that seems to work great. I was wondering If someone has adapted one of those desoldering guns to work with an Aoyue 968A+... I don´t have the money to buy another machine, and I also don´t have a place to put it on my room.
Anyway, why am I going to buy another machine that has the same air pump that has my machine? I mean, there has to be a way to adapt that gun to work with this station, right?
what do you think? help me please..