[Lab] rework station - no reviews

[Jean-Marc LeBlanc]

I am hopping to solder SMD part and fix consumer electronics like you
suggested exactly the RROD

Jean-Marc Le Blanc
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"Do you pine for the nice days of Minix-1.1, when men were men and
wrote their own device drivers?" Linus Torvalds




On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Tom Burns <tom.i.burns at gmail.com> wrote:
> What are you planning on doing with the rework station?  They go hot enough
> to do lead-free solder so you could repair consumer electronics - a lot of
> them have problems due to improper wave soldering where the BGA heats up and
> then creates a gap.  The most famous example of this is red ring of death
> xbox 360s where the GPU would overheat itself, create a gap, and then not
> work.
>
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Jean-Marc LeBlanc
> <jeanmarc.leblanc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I was thinking of getting one of these
>>
>> http://gzyihuatools.en.ec21.com/YH_852D_SE_Rework_Station--4211637_4250762.html
>>
>> Its a rework station with a solder station and the go for about 120$
>>
>> I was alos looking at some thing like AOYUE
>>
>> http://gsmserver.com/shop/equipment/soldering_sssembly/hot_air/aoyue_968_hot_air_soldering_station_smoke_absorber_soldering_iron_110_v.php
>>
>> I currently have a 50W soldering station.
>> http://canada.newark.com/jsp/search/productdetail.jsp?SKU=92C1414&N=0
>>
>> I am hopping to upgrade and then I could give away my solder station.
>> I still want a good solder station though.  any one has any
>> suggestions or comments for me?
>>
>> Jean-Marc Le Blanc
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>>
>> "Do you pine for the nice days of Minix-1.1, when men were men and
>> wrote their own device drivers?" Linus Torvalds
>>
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