component stress hot air desoldering
Hi again,
Thankyou all for your reply's!
Its interesting that there are many techniques for both soldering and desoldering SMT, and its always reasuring when people discuss their
experiences with these techniques. It allows me to gauge what I really need for the type of work I'm doing. Thanks again!
Reading through, its seems that I have a few things missing from my setup, and my technique. This is probably why I've ruined boards/components
I've set aside £30 ($40USD) for my equipment, first on the list is 'flux', as I never use extra, I just rely on the core in my solder, which probably isn't enough. Then its magnification, I've got a magnifying lamp somewhere. And then its other consumables: solder wick, solder paste (when I get my gas iron), low temp solder, and eventually a temp controlled iron.
Hope you don't mind, but I've copy/pasted your advice to a text file for future reference
since I want to try all techniques to see where and when they should be used, and if it 'works for me'.
Also, TheHungry, I signed up with AVRfreaks, and that really is a great article! I'm about to order a gas soldering iron for rework, and then practice on some scrap boards to get me up to scratch.
Thanks again, you all provided very useful information, which on the web, is nearly always given by a company trying to sell their product. Impartial advice is a rarity these days.
I might post back in this thread once I've got all my equipment up and practiced like mad.
Buriedcode.
Ps. I started soldering 5 years ago, and I dread to think how many mistakes I've made, hopefully, thats in the past.