Re: Hakko 470 desoldering tool - awesome!

Steve, when cleaning with the wire pin. You have to take off the solder
collection tube, turn the 808 ON, not off, let it heat up and melt the
excess solder trapped in there, and THEN you clean it with a pin wire.
it wil come out. Pin wire is very ineffective when solder builds up and
you try to clean it up sold. You have to turn it on, then clean. Hope
that helps.

To Ken. Glad you like it, 470 is the Top Cat of desoldering stations,
no doubt, and I've owned XYTronics, Weller, Pace and all other stuff -
sold them all.

Adi
www.txpinball.com




Steve Kulpa wrote:
> Work with it for a month or so and see how you feel then. I felt just
> like you when I got my Hakko 808. Then after a while you have to run
> the little wire up the nozzle to clear it out, which at first, fits
> perfectly, no biggie. Then the hole starts to get plugged w/ more than
> solder (I guess) and the wire won't fit anymore, or gets REAL TIGHT, so
> I have to either replace the tip, or ream it out w/ a real small drill
> bit, etc. I actually got the wire stuck so bad I could not remove it.
> I ended up cutting it off with some dikes flush w/ the tip and tossing
> it. Next, from time to time you have to remove the tip and the barrel
> while it's hot (with a wrench or slip-joint pliers) to clean out the
> tube behind the nozzle tip. Now they did supply a nice tool for that
> cleanout job, but you still have to remove the tip and barrel, then
> clean, then put it back on, w/o burning yourself!
>
> Granted, my 808 is by far better than the solder pullers, braid, bulb
> thingies, etc., but they're still not perfect. Now, if there were a
> button to push that would cause a clean-out wire to activate
> automatically, THEN it would be perfect - shoot, I'd even settle for a
> better clean out wire that I could actually insert everytime w/o it
> bending or me having to do odd things to get it inserted. Having to
> disassemble the tip and barrel to clean it is a real pain, especially
> if you have to do it one and hour or so as you work on the big stack of
> boards.
>
> also, and I'm sure this is true w/ any desoldering tool - in order to
> unsolder a dual-sided solder joint, you have to heat the bottom up
> enough to melt the solder on top too - half the time the heat required
> will lift the bottom solder tabs - I hate that!!!
>
>
> steve (cargpb10 - sigh)

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