Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 24 18:29:36 EST 2005 | SuePH
Thanks for the reply, Russ. I looked at the Air-Vac web site. I am looking for something that is a lot more basic than their machine. I had seen a small table top wave machine at a customers shop a few years ago. It had a pump and different si
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 29 22:53:13 EST 2000 | KH
I have used both the QX2 and BGA3500 hot air rework system from Metcal; both are great systems; the QX2 is a very simple system for leaded devices, easily trained and very inexpensive compared to SRT, Air Vac, and Conceptronics. The BGA3500 works on
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 29 22:53:13 EST 2000 | KH
I have used both the QX2 and BGA3500 hot air rework system from Metcal; both are great systems; the QX2 is a very simple system for leaded devices, easily trained and very inexpensive compared to SRT, Air Vac, and Conceptronics. The BGA3500 works on
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 21 19:10:29 EST 2008 | hegemon
The APE machines are still OK in their place. We still have two APE machines that are over 8 years old and still are good for some processes, but have been consigned to the leaded solder rework area. We have upgraded to AirVac since the advent of le
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 29 07:37:45 EDT 2012 | davef
The current discussion about solder fountains has to do with copper dissolution. Broadly, copper dissolution is the weakening of copper traces where a trace and a barrel plating intersect due a loss of the copper into the solder. Longer contact time
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 29 21:18:28 EDT 1999 | Dreamsniper
| | I finaly get a vacation and decide to go to the forum and low and behold it's hot air verses a small ray of sun.I read every thread and still failed to see any real argument either way? I love rework as an assembler. I hate rework as a shop owner
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 29 23:57:16 EDT 1999 | Jeff Sanchez
| | I finaly get a vacation and decide to go to the forum and low and behold it's hot air verses a small ray of sun.I read every thread and still failed to see any real argument either way? I love rework as an assembler. I hate rework as a shop owner
