Looking at the design, I would recommend using silicon airline.  It is
available at most aquarium shops.  It will make the device much safer and
durable.  You really never want to experience the smell of the burning
plastic airline.  :-(

At 09:47 AM 1/30/2003, you wrote:
>Here is another option -- I found this link some weeks ago and
>thought I'd build one to experiment since it's quite low-cost.
>If anyone here's used it, I'd love to hear their experiences
>on how it worked/works.
>
>http://www.usbmicro.com/apps.html
>
>Cheers,
>-Neil.
>
>
>
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> > [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of llile@SALTONUSA.COM
> > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 9:55 AM
> > To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> > Subject: Re: [EE]: SMT soldering
> >
> >
> > Imre,
> >
> > I just use a standard adjustable temp. Weller soldering iron with an
> > 0.032" tip, the smallest size they sell.  I bought some syringes with
> > paste solder and paste flux.  These work a lot better for surface mount
> > than wire solder.  However, the old trick of laying a piece of wire solder
> > alongside a row of pins, and then melting it all at once still works too.
> > As long as you have enough flux, anyway.  I have several pairs of tweezers
> > with different tips, never could get those vacuum tweezers to work right.
> >
> > This is a relatively slow way to do surface mount, but for occasional use
> > it works fine.  I never got the toaster oven method working very well.
> >
> >
> > -- Lawrence Lile
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "dr. Imre Bartfai" <root@PROF.PMMF.HU>
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> > 01/30/2003 04:30 AM
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> >         To:     PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
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> >         Subject:        [EE]: SMT soldering
> >
> >
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I need to solder SMT parts (0805, SOT23, SOIC etc.) occasionally. However,
> > in the catalogue of Farnell what I found soldering irons with tips which
> > seem to be appropriate for the said parts are called as
> > desoldering/reworking tools. My question is: are these nice things not
> > capable to solder SMT parts at all? If really not, how could I do the job?
> >
> > Any help is greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Imre
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