[R-390] THIS REALLY SUCKS!!!!

[Tisha Hayes]

I also own a Hakko 808, it is a pretty good desoldering tool. I had been
trying without much success to recapture the performance of the old Weller
station that had the iron and the pump with the little glass vial across
the top of the desoldering tool. The vacuum was powered by a compressed air
source and you had a foot switch. The Hakko comes really close in
performance.

If you own one get the spare parts that include a replacement heater
element and the little black diaphragm pumps and some spare tips. On the
old Weller station usually the tips would plug up and we ended up drilling
those out to clear the blockage. Even with that they would last many months
of continual use.

Looking for a Hakko or one of the Chinese clones, make sure it is a 120
volt model. Most of what they make are 240 volt units.

-- 
Ms. Tisha Hayes/ AA4HA

*Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into
despotisms.*