Hi all,
I've seen some posts on the Quick 951D/DW/DW+ rework stations, including some great teardown info from blueskull in nidlaX's review... but I haven't seen anything talking about whether and/or how well the product works.
I'm looking for an inexpensive station to occasionally remove some smd micro switches, 8-pin soic chips, and maybe a QFP-112 (20x20mm-ish) chip or two.
The unit comes with 3 nozzles and they do sell a 20x20 QFP nozzle too - does anybody have any positive or negative related experience they can share?
(also, I do know the 861 is better, and I may go that route but I'm not going to use this thing that often)
Thanks,
Tom
Almost any station will do for "occasionall" work and the chips you are saying.
About custom nozzles i'm a bit lazy and i always use the same round 8mm nozzle, you can do almost everything with it.
I have the 861DW, great machine
I find it easy to remove plastic parts like switch, FPC, etc without melt them, 280-300ºc is good for me. Also it can rework big BGA chips, i have done some CPU replacements on TV mains, still a preheater for big chips are recommended.
BGA with critical nearby chips with underfill are also kinda of easy, just protect what you need, blast it a max. airflow (120) at 320-330ºc. It will desolder lead free BGA without mess with other area. This work with iPhone which have big thermals
You'd be able to remove those packages without any special nozzles.