[sdiy] Hot Air Rework Heat Gun with no base.. Only handpiece.. Any suggestions ?

[cheater cheater]

if you only ever desolder quad pack chips of any sort, then you don't
need hot air. use a piece of solid copper wire and bend it into a heat
spreading frame.

The youtuber "Mr SolderFix" has about one million videos of him doing
exactly that and they are always a joy to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/@mrsolderfix3996

once you know that method, hot air is only really ever necessary for BGA rework.

On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM Roman Sowa via Synth-diy
<synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:
>
> I have something even cheaper from Aliex, with controll part as separate
> brick, like small laptop power adapter. There was only one time I really
> needed that, when replacing QFN44 chip and it indeed worked very wall on
> that task. Most of the time I use it to shrink heatshrink tubes.
>
> Roman
>
> W dniu 2025-02-26 o 18:21, Jean-Pierre Desrochers via Synth-diy pisze:
> > I want to buy a small Hot Air Rework Heat Gun.
> >
> > (to desolder and remove small smd parts)
> >
> > I only want a Heat gun that all fits on a handpiece.
> >
> > No Rework base station ..
> >
> > What I found that looks like what I’m looking for would be this :
> >
> > https://www.amazon.ca/LRT-8018A-Rework-Station-Desoldering/dp/B0BK9DHTJH
> > <https://www.amazon.ca/LRT-8018A-Rework-Station-Desoldering/dp/B0BK9DHTJH>
> >
> > At $48.18CAD  it seems cheap and could be long term not reliable..
> >
> > *Any suggestions for a good one (< $200) ?*
> >
> > Again no Rework base station ,  only a handpiece with replacable nozzles.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
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