[sdiy] Desolder Station?

[J.D. McEachin]

On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Rob B wrote:

> Well, the problem is, you don't really gain much for the 1000 times expense
> you pay for a *real* desoldering station.. Quite frankly, its more of a pain
> in the *ss, just in a different way..

Thanks, but I've tried a desolder station for my particular application,
and decided that it's worth 1000x the expense.  Besides, it's tax
deductible, so that makes it only 600x the expense. ;)


> If I needed to really *clear* whole boards, this is how I have done it
> before, and it was faster than the 4k usd rework station we had..

I'm not talking whole boards - I'm talking one chip, lots of boards.

I searched the archives and found lots of discussion of using wicks,
bulbs, suckers, blow torches, heat guns, etc., but that's really not what
I'm interested in.  Nothing on desolder/rework stations, though.

Thanks to Doug and Romeo for actually answering my question. :)

JDM