Heller Reflow Oven

Depends a bit on how well maintained it is and what your spares answer ends up being. However, bear in mind that a brand new Chinese oven of this sort of size can be 5-10K and larger but 10 years newer Heller/BTU/Vitronics oven can be priced in that same bracket... not very much.

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I have 4 Heller Ovens. 3 of them I don't have much trouble getting parts for. They are all 1800 Series with Windows operating systems. The 4th is a 1500 with more like a DOS looking interface. Many of the part numbers are obsolete, and difficult to get parts. I've also had HELLER technicians just tell me "nope, can't help" when trying to get support for that one.

Heating elements and blower motors you can get, the Controller is probably a no-go. I'd say pull the computer hard drive and duplicate it, because when the old Pentium II or whatever dies, you might not be able to get the software.

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