Re: Equipment selection

I'm partial to Metcal equipment. There is always a ton of metcal
equipment available on ebay. www.metcal.com But this isn't a holy
war. I chose mine because the company I work for uses Metcal equipment.

I use the MX-500 base station with the Desoldering gun (DS-1). Very
awesome. Note that you need shop air (80psi as I remember) for it.
I've also got the Talon assembly. Plus a rm3e handle with several tips.

For work all the stuff I work with is SMT. For "real work" (games) most
of what I do is thruhole.

The technology for metcal is interesting. The tips handle the temperature
regulation. And the base unit provides energy via RF. So when I'm working
on pinball coils I use a big tip and the unit pumps out more then enough
power to easily melt the solder. (I do have a weller gun just in case.. :)

Kurt

> Could the group point me at the best place to look for a good first
> "real" soldering setup, or recommend options. I'm looking for something
> that will work well for re-flows and such on older stuff (Duh, you're on
> Vectorlist) as well as some work on more current consumer electronics.
> (Small SMT type stuff, through-hole)
> I'm ready to stop fighting with the cheap iron I have right now, but
> don't know what features are good/necessary/irrelevant. TIA for all the
> help. =)
>
> The early bird gets the worm, but the second
> mouse gets the cheese.
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Received on Fri Mar 14 08:48:28 2003