Homebrew PCBs

On Saturday 29 May 2004 05:05 pm, Stefan Trethan wrote:
> >> I'm talking about a "active" solder sucker.
> >
> > I'm not sure what you mean by that.

> I mean a heated solder sucker, with heated tip.

The only thing I've seen that would come close to this is a soldering iron 
which has a hollow tip,  and the vacuum plumbing,  and those tips are 
expensive.

> >> The type that has a metal hollow tip, attached to a metal pipe which is
> >> heated. the back end of this metal pipe has to carry the hose.

> > You want to flow solder around some plumbing,  and maintain the stuff
> > liquid the whole time?  Why?

> Because it is great for desoldering.
>
> Have you never seen such a unit? That is not my invention, such things
> are available commercially.

Nope,  never saw anything like it.  (See above.)

> I do not flow it around plumbing, at the end of the hot tube there will be
> some filter stopping it.

I too have a filter in line with my setup -- the pumps are "diaphragm" type 
and I sure wouldn't want anything to get in there.  It's an old glass-bowl 
fuel filter.  <g>

That setup,  in conjunction with a standard soldering iron,  works well for me 
for the most part.