On Monday 28 April 2003 22:45, Dave King wrote:
> On my board I can do everything in one shot as its all through hole. Th=
e
> biggest
> problem is going to be running the board through fast enough so the
> component with the
> lowest temp tolerance doesn't smoke.

May the force be with you.



> The pan I've got will go up to about 475=B0F which is higher than the s=
older
> which
> offhand was 375-425. The only problem is that it has a huge surface are=
a
> and not really all that much heat.

This is what I was wondering.... if any cooking device could generate eno=
ugh=20
heat.  Perhaps you could supplement with some type of immersible heater.



> My original idea was to duplicate a wave machine and slide it through b=
ut I
> don't
> think its going to work that well so the alternative way is to make a m=
etal
> holder
> out of 6061 angle with a means of adjusting the height from the bottom.=
 So
> you put the board in push it in count 1 and yank it out. In theory the
> standoffs hit the
> bottom of the pan and doesn't submerge the board just the bottom gets
> "wet".

But will need to be adjusted as the solder level drops with use.  Or keep=
=20
topping off the solder regularly.

Look at Panavise's model 315 ckt-board holder head for some ideas.  Perha=
ps=20
you can integrate something like that onto the sliding part of your track=
=20
system, so it's easy to snap the boards in and out of the holder.

BTW, why specifically 6061?  Is there a problem with the other common gra=
des=20
like 5052, etc?



> Like I said I'm just playing as I couldn't find diddly squat for diy in=
fo
> on doing this.
>
> Dave

Keep us posted.
-Neil.

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