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We bought a couple of older PACE desoldering stations from eBay, and find them ever so much better than a solder pump. If used with care you can rescue most IC's - like the spider ICs as used on Gottlieb System 1 CPUs...<br><br>
John :-#)#<br><br>
At 02:18 PM 13/03/2002 -0500, Kev wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font face="arial" size=2>Who has experience with desoldering / rework tools?</font><br>
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<font face="arial" size=2>I do all of my work with a hand vacum pump now.</font><br>
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<font face="arial" size=2>I've heard good things about the PACE SX80 system.</font><br>
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<font face="arial" size=2>Ideally I'm interested in a self contained unit versus shop air (I've got shop air but it isn't convienent).</font><br>
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<font face="arial" size=2>Which is quieter?</font><br>
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<font face="arial" size=2>I can see my needs expanding, needing tweezers, hot air etc. What platform is best for expansion?</font><br>
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<font face="arial" size=2>JROK posted about a paste for rework, but that is apparently expensive.</font><br>
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<font face="arial" size=2>Thanks,</font><br>
<font face="arial" size=2>Kev</font><br>
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Received on Wed Mar 13 12:42:21 2002
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