[Boatanchors] HAKKO 808 Desoldering Gun

[Robert Nickels]

On 6/24/2020 4:57 PM, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>
>    Someone mentioned peanut oil. I wonder what advantage it had over 
> silicon oil. I think the smoke point of refined peanut oil is not m 
> much higher than the melting point of solder. The point of the oil is 
> to prevent oxidation of the solder and to act as a flux. 

All I know about that is, yes they used peanut oil to control the dross 
on wave solder machines.    In a small company I worked at in the 70s, 
the president's son was apprenticed to the production manager to learn 
the ropes as part of his training to eventually take over.    The 
manager told him to add some peanut oil to the solder tank, but what he 
didn't tell him is to put the oil in before the machine was up to 
temperature, so the oil would heat up along with the solder.   I don't 
know how much of the gallon jug of peanut oil made it into the solder 
pot but it took two hours to ventilate all the smoke out of the factory 
so they could get back to work ;-)

73, Bob W9RAN