Hi guys
I figured I'm gonna have to add a fume extractor to my shopping list.
To be honest I don't currently have one.
Starting as a hobbyist in the 70s, and then all through the 80s and into the 90s when I worked full time in electronics repair, in large workshops with 100+ repair engineers, I never even saw or heard of such as thing as a solder fume extractor. And that was leaded solder of course. To be honest I think you were breathing in more crap from the other engineers who smoked than you ever would from the soldering iron. In fact I kinda like the smell of flux.
But it seems these days the entire species have gone all soft and think everything we did in the 70s and 80s is gonna kill them.
But that is besides the point, I'm just mentioning.
So I never have a problem with fumes from my soldering iron. But when I use my hot air station I often have to go open the door for a while afterwards to clear the workshop a bit if I did a lot of rework - or for example after reclaiming parts off scrap boards.
And I have a BGA rework station coming - and I am pretty sure that is gonna need some sort of fume extractor, just to keep the room pleasant.
Looking around on ali and ebay there are loads of extractors around. I've also seen plenty of youtube videos showing how to build one out of everything from a shoe box to two plastic tubs.
I did a forum search here but it seems that while there was plenty of discussion whether fume extractors are just for Wusses, there was very little discussion on what type to buy if they are not
I want to use the extractor with this machine. It will have it's own dedicated bench in the workshop. Maybe I can mount the extractor to the machine somehow?
(interestingly in the video it does not seem to produce any fumes?!?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71-DBp-cfmM
Off topic - I was also thinking of mounting something like a borescope to the machine so I can see the solder balls are melting under a BGA. It may help when setting up profiles. Maybe I can even get the borescope to display on the machines monitor screen when it's not in use by the alignment system.
I figured I'm gonna have to add a fume extractor to my shopping list.
To be honest I don't currently have one.
Starting as a hobbyist in the 70s, and then all through the 80s and into the 90s when I worked full time in electronics repair, in large workshops with 100+ repair engineers, I never even saw or heard of such as thing as a solder fume extractor. And that was leaded solder of course. To be honest I think you were breathing in more crap from the other engineers who smoked than you ever would from the soldering iron. In fact I kinda like the smell of flux.
But it seems these days the entire species have gone all soft and think everything we did in the 70s and 80s is gonna kill them.
But that is besides the point, I'm just mentioning.
So I never have a problem with fumes from my soldering iron. But when I use my hot air station I often have to go open the door for a while afterwards to clear the workshop a bit if I did a lot of rework - or for example after reclaiming parts off scrap boards.
And I have a BGA rework station coming - and I am pretty sure that is gonna need some sort of fume extractor, just to keep the room pleasant.
Looking around on ali and ebay there are loads of extractors around. I've also seen plenty of youtube videos showing how to build one out of everything from a shoe box to two plastic tubs.
I did a forum search here but it seems that while there was plenty of discussion whether fume extractors are just for Wusses, there was very little discussion on what type to buy if they are not
I want to use the extractor with this machine. It will have it's own dedicated bench in the workshop. Maybe I can mount the extractor to the machine somehow?
(interestingly in the video it does not seem to produce any fumes?!?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71-DBp-cfmM
Off topic - I was also thinking of mounting something like a borescope to the machine so I can see the solder balls are melting under a BGA. It may help when setting up profiles. Maybe I can even get the borescope to display on the machines monitor screen when it's not in use by the alignment system.
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