[sdiy] SMD rework equipment

[Jason Proctor]

thanks for the info, all.

i have a Weller WTCPT iron, which has been a trusty servant. can i make
this iron more suitable for SMT stuff, or are other irons (i see Metcal is
popular) just more appropriate?

any tips for steadying oldish hands while doing delicate work? i did wonder
whether our EMS had a setup where nothing was hand-held. do such
arrangements exist?

thanks much!
Jason


On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 4:57 PM, charlie wallace <charlie at finitemonkeys.com>
wrote:

> Trinocular boom from amscope with usb camera or a mantis from eBay
> Metcal from eBay
> Solder sucker
> Wiha esd tweezer set
> Chip quik
> On May 19, 2016 4:54 PM, "MTG" <grant at musictechnologiesgroup.com> wrote:
>
>> +1 on the scope, -1 on the USB camera.  And I have exactly the same
>> situation regarding taking *my* scope to work and back. They actually have
>> one at work but it has no light.  I use 10x most of the time on the
>> microscope and rarely x30.  My scope was not much over $100 USD and I've no
>> complaints.
>>
>> www.amscope.com
>>
>> GB
>>
>> On 5/19/2016 4:35 PM, Gordonjcp wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Binocular microscope is great, cheapy USB camera
>>>
>> > microscope is perfectly okay (we use them at work
>> > when I take *my* binocular microscope home), decent
>> > non-magnetic tweezers and a good soldering iron with
>>
>>> not too small a point.
>>>
>>
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