Were there ever any responses to this?  I never saw any, and can't find=20
anything in the archives, but am very curious about using solder pots.


On Saturday 26 April 2003 00:32, Jesse Lackey wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> One of my clients has 15 boards of low to moderate complexity to be
> soldered up.  There's about 100 components, all thru-hole, not
> particularly dense or anything tricky.  I've soldered these before by
> hand, it takes about an 1h:15min to an hour and a half, when doing it
> not in a rush.
>
> I'm wondering ...
>
> I see solder pots advertised in jameco, and I've heard of wave solderin=
g
> and that gear is expensive (on ebay, anyway).  I'm unclear exactly what
> a solder pot is used for.  I envision some process whereby a board is
> stuffed, leads trimmed, and dipped into a mini-vat of molten solder for
> a few seconds, and voila.  But solder pots don't come with a means of
> dunking the board - is this a separate thing?  And most solder pots loo=
k
> rather small.  I'd like to be able to do 4" x 6" boards.
>
> If I can keep the cost under $250 a desktop-type system for
> insta-soldering thru-hole boards would pretty much pay for itself with
> this project.
>
> On the other hand, the more designs I do, the more surface mount parts =
I
> use.  Should I look at things that can reflow (or whatever its called)
> surface mount parts?  Are these usable with thru-hole too?
>
> I've seen the toaster-oven website ... has anyone tried this with
> thru-hole?
>
> Ok enuf questions ... thanks in advance for any insights!
>
> Best,
> Jesse

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