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

[Roman Sowa]

I'mm not going to watch all that videos now, although I subscribed for 
later as it looks interesting.

There's no way you can desolder QFN with wire bent in any kind of frame, 
what about the middle pad? Besides, why would I get into trouble of 
making special fixtures with wire if I have hot air anyway?

I can desolder QFNs up to 6mm using regular wide chissel tip and I've 
done that numerous times, but that's not enough for bigger parts.

Roman

W dniu 2025-02-28 o 05:27, cheater cheater pisze:
> 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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