Very fishy that they claim unrefrigerated life but ship on ice....
There's a separate fridge for adhesives and crap, none of that stuff
gets into mine! It would soon smell like a chemical factory and
storing food in it would be lethal. The solder paste is held in a
glass jar with the lid on tightly, in the medicine shelf which has a
separate lid, so I'm fairly sure I won't poison myself.
The glue and chemicals fridge is a right mess, I kept my paste there
at first but it's just too disgusting and people kept upsetting the
syringes so they no longer pointed down. Everything is coated in that
white cyanoacrylate haze and smells really dangerous (probably is).
You know how it is if too many people use some equipment and nobody
has a sharp eye on it things get out of hand really quickly.
I completely agree with you on the marketing at Zephyrtronics, It's
well over the top.
ST
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Sz G <the6hu8b@...> wrote:
> In fact, the site claims it "ships on ice". All the stuff looks quite professional there but I'm reluctant to believe all the marketing bull∗∗∗∗ on the page Henry linked. Most of their equipment isn't unique at all maybe except the paste itself (I'd be happy to stand corrected; I can't determine the shelf life of these materials since I (and probably the most of us?) store them in the fridge along with some adhesives, cyanoacrylate, alkaline batteries etc. There's no room for cold drinks :) ).
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> I really don't like when a manufacturer tries to exaggerate their products' qualities well beyond reality. No matter where David Jacks worked, an inexperienced buyer will think Zephyrtronics actually invented hot air reflow.
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> Gabor
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