[Elecraft] 707 vs 808

[Tom Hammond]

Ron:

>When working in "highly populated component" environments. Do you find it
>much nicer to use the "pencil" (maybe I should call it a "big magic marker")
>type desolderer rather than the "gun" that the 808 is?

Personally, I find the A1394 tip to be the berries for just this type of 
problem. It's .43" long and only 2.0mm O.D., so it will slip down between 
just about any two components (without frying them, I might add) and allows 
me to suck the solder from just about any PC board pad which would have 
been quite impossible to access with a 'standard' tip.

The A1394 tip is a bit 'delicate' though... when I finish using it, I clean 
it out and remove it from the 808 before I continue using the device. I'm 
not admitting to having done such but, being only 2.0mm O.D. it can be bent 
or broken if the user is a bit careless in how he handles it.

73,

Tom  N0SS