[Boatanchors] Multi-Layer PC Board Component Replacement

[Carl]

What size nozzles do the owners here find the best for chips and SMD 
work?

Carl


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <eugene at hertzmail.com>
To: <jim7 at jimlarsen.us>; <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 11:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Multi-Layer PC Board Component Replacement


>I totally concur. I LOVE my hakko 808. I don't know how I lived all
> these years without it! Hihi!
>
> I've even used it to "borrow" chips from working equipment in
> troubleshooting non-working equipment. Then I put the chip back! 
> That's
> how reliably and cleanly and non-destructively this works.
>
> The chips do totally fall into your hand.
> (yes I know bad idea to borrow chips)
>
> Eugene
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jim Larsen -
> AL7FS
> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 8:26 PM
> To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Multi-Layer PC Board Component Replacement
>
> This is just an observation.
>
> Recently, a local ham operator had to replace the mega-chip in his 
> Yaesu
>
> FT-736R.  He borrowed a friend's Hakko 808 desoldering tool.  He moved
> from pin to pin with the 808 and when he got to the last pin, the chip
> just dropped out onto the table.  It was a simple job then to solder 
> in
> the new chip.
>
> References:
> http://www.kiesub.com/hakko808.htm
> http://www.n0ss.net/hakko_808_notes.pdf
> http://www.tequipment.net/Hakko808.html
> http://www.hakko.com/english/maintenance/jyokyo_index.html
>
> The Hakko 808 is not cheap but then the results seem to be 
> outstanding.
>
> 73, Jim
>
> Jim Larsen
> http://www.AL7FS.us/
> Anchorage Alaska    (907)345-3190
>
>
>
> Richard W. Solomon wrote:
>> I have a Spectrum Analyzer that needs a memory chip replaced. Later
>> versions of this unit have sockets, mine has them soldered in.
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