Homebrew PCBs

So the hot air heats the solder to allow removal of the component, right?

How do you get the solder off the pad or out of the hole in preparation 
for replacing it? Seems like a vacuum tool would be useful for that 
function.

Steve

Stefan Trethan wrote:
> Of course!
>
> SMD needs a hot air tool, not a desoldering tool. I missed that.
>
> Contrary to the desoldering tool the AOYUE (and clones, xytronics
> etc.) hot air tool works great. I have one at work and one at home, no
> real complaints about either. These cost 50-100eur and make SMD rework
> really easy.
>
> ST
>
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Dylan Smith <dyls@...> wrote:
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>> On Wed, 21 May 2008, Steve wrote:
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>>> Desoldering stations seem to start in the $200 range and go up from
>>> there. What features and functionality should I look for in a
>>> desoldering station?
>>>       
>> This may seem like heresy, but it works for me: a B&Q hot air gun. (B&Q is
>> a home improvement store chain, if you're not somewhere in Britain or
>> Ireland). I have had great success using this inexpensive hot air gun on
>> SMD and through hole boards, both for recovering components off redundant
>> kit that I want to use later, and for reworking and repair, and even
>> soldering new components on with solder paste. Its low setting is 260
>> celcius.
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