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| mightyohm:
--- Quote from: SgtRock on September 04, 2011, 10:12:50 pm ---Dear Mightyohm: --Congratulations on the Hakko 808. I would like to get one myself. The Fry's price of $152 seems very tempting. Could you please desolder entire boards 8 hours a day for a while and report back. Just kidding. What is your opinion of the 808 as an industrial tool. How long would it last in heavy usage, can it be kept in service with regular maintenance, replacing tips, etc.? I only want your best guess. I have two Hakko 936s, with one converted to use 908 heavy duty tips for desoldering. I also have a Weller 300 watt gun for big jobs. I am going to get a vacuum desoldering setup. I just do not know exactly what to get. Advice by any and all would be welcomed. Best Regards Clear Ether --- End quote --- It works great. I was really impressed - I had the 40 pin ZIF out in well under 20 minutes from the time I plugged in the iron. The reviewers on eham.net really love it, and claim that it stands up to industrial use, too: http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/2978 There are good reviews on amazon.com as well: http://www.amazon.com/Hakko-Desoldering-Kit-808-Gun/dp/B000ARPULW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1315185143&sr=8-1 |
| SgtRock:
Greetings EEVBees: --With regard to the latest comments by UV and his "LOL" comment; I invite the gentle reader to examine this thread, and see for yourself if I have recommended the use of DeoxIT for correction of mechanical problems. I deny that I have at anytime recommended DeoxIT as any kind of a magic potion whatsoever. DeoxIT is useful for solving intermittent problems due to oxidation and dirt, period. That is all that it claims, and it is all that I claim. --I am somewhat puzzled by UV's response in light of this PM, which I quote below: ""Congratulation: You have won an all expenses paid one way trip to my ignore list. To do so within so few posts could even be the all time record. The maxim was and always will be think before you type, a concept clearly beyond your intelect and abilities. Feel free to rant there as incoherently as you already do! Feel free also to send as many abusive replies as you see fit, I do not mind I will never have to read them or any of the other tripe you are capable of regurgitating. Indeed you were the weakest link!" [Editors note: The spelling , punctuation, questionable usage are as per original speaker] --And on another occasion UV stated: "Your other option, of course, would be to spontaneously combust, hell why not do it as a video post, while I will not be able to see it I am sure I will hear about it when it happens. :-)" --Please view my next post for comments which are more on topic. Best Regards Clear Ether |
| SgtRock:
Dear Mightyohm and IanB: --Based on the strength of your recommendations, I am ordering a Hakko 808 desoldering gun. I am so tired of re-soldering to get rid of lead free solder. I am also tired of quickly banging the PCB on the table. Likewise, I am also tired of "copper braid", "God help us". --As for those who advocate a three to ten dollar solder sucker ,well, I can only conclude that they have never been confronted with a real sitchyiation. --My uncle Tudge used to tell me "If you ain't go no time, no money, and no tools, you ain't got no business f***ing around" "Three weeks in the lab will save you a day in the library every time" Stanley Williams, HP Labs Best Regards Clear Ether |
| Mechatrommer:
--- Quote from: SgtRock on September 05, 2011, 07:36:34 am ---As for those who advocate a three to ten dollar solder sucker ,well, I can only conclude that they have never been confronted with a real sitchyiation. --- End quote --- You seem to think that your way of doing things is the only way ;) |
| DaveyCrockett:
I have found a way of cleaning a ZIF socket. I used a piece of round wood, known as pegwood to clockmakers, but really any old stick of wood will do. First I buzzed through connections to isolate those that needed work. I whittled two flats on the pegwood so that it fitted between the open terminals of the socket. I put a very little of a metal polish (called Brasso in the UK) on the stick and with it in the socket and applying light pressure with the lever moved the stick up and down. The polishing action made the stick black. I scraped the black off to clean the stick with a blade before going onto the next connection. After polishing, I sprayed with solvent cleaner. I didn't bother to disassemble the socket for better access. I rechecked connections with a meter after the treatment and my programmer now works. Based upon a sample of 1 socket, 100% success (so far). D |
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