Re: Surface Mounting Components

I have built about 10 solder suckers using the handpiece and accessories (tips etc) from PACE. I bought these directly from a pace supplier. The power units I constructed were housed in an aluminum enclosure, I used a 12 volt powersupply, a 12 volt solenoid valve, a 12 volt vacuum pump (same as used in Mercedes power door lock system), and one of those cast aluminum project boxes (best fit into my cabinet with the other components) for the vacuum reservoir, and I also used 2 ordinary household lamp dimmers as heat control, one for a soldering iron and one for the desoldering iron. These worked out real nice and some are still being used today. If anyone is interested, I could probably find one and take some pics of what I did and put them on my web site. A good source for the desoldering handpieces is amateur radio swapmeets, there always seems to be some of the old pace compressed air operated desoldering systems available for $5 to $25, if you dont have the air compressor to run it, the handpiece is still worth the selling price.

We were using the solenoid valves and vacuum pumps in a vacuum picking device and when we discontinued production, the components found their way to http://www.eio.com/

You might try searching their www site, they may be listed there. When their retail store was open I used to see them in the warehouse, but that was a couple of years ago.

Bill Griffin
www.grifftek.com
Message: 10
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1999 21:28:20 -0500
From: Earl J Morris <ejmorris@...>
Subject: Re: Surface Mounting Components.


Greetings Hans

I have been using various manual solder suckers for over thirty years
as a field service engineer. As they say, "It is in the technique". They
work fine, but I have a large quantity of circuit that I am boning for
parts. Operating the plunger stresses my body parts after a while.

The commercial units go for over $500.00, although the hollow tips are
reasonably priced. Using a small pump, storage tank, and a solenoid valve
should be able to replicate the commercial units.

Earl

>
> Earl,
> I think I would try to buy a solder sucker, at least the Iron, you will
> need a good supply of "bit" and homemade ones would be eaten away much
> to quickly.