I bought myself a Aoyue 968, mostly because of the Fume extraction feature, i had the rest, will see what to do with them.
But lately i was tottaly fedup of inhaling those solder fumes, nose stuffed etc..., bothered me each time, i always tend
to blow a little air while soldering to take that away, and i didn't wanted to wear a Chemical suite as Samuel seems to do
when on his way to his solder station ;D (if you remember that one?)
I believe most of you guys have nothing, or a simple Carbon filter fan, or those supper dupper fancy weller stuff kind of things, confined filter kind of thing (best i think if you're a company)
I had those fans and it was just too much f*ckin noise, and air was just blowed all around in the room, and so solder fume was chaotic and not very centered...
Had to take the fn really down on the board to make it happen....
Adding an extraction tube at the back would have worked better, but that would have been a lot of stuff....
Received the Aoyue yesterday, put it to use, there was not much about it on the web beside that old Hackaday review,
so i was concerned about the compressor noise, i like to have a little music background when working, and don't like factory noises...
Build quality is "ok" cheap plastic for the solder iron, but it's ok, i went for the old version of this Aoyue, because Hakko 936 tips
can be used for it, and i had a couple of spares so.... New Aoyue model has their tips for 20euros each , and the station is double price....
I used Hakko's iron stand, because the Aoyue one, was not very adapted for the Iron + Fume extractor, but nothing too wrong with it...., just
a little clumsy when fitted back in....
Compressor doesn't do too much noise, wich is great, the only small noise that gets out of it is the pressure ball playing in the tube for getting to the top,
a little hit on the side, done, haha, reminds me of those old TV's...
The iron, heats quickly and is ok, fume extraction works good too, you have to stay a little after solering to get all that fume sucked out,
a quick movement after soldering will of course deviate the fumes and will just get back to your noise again, pressure is just enough for fumes so...
As said on that Hackaday review the extraction is made from the heatgun, soooo don't know much about that for the heatgun...
And i guess i'll eat it all back again if using that heatgun, i put this one facing in another room, but it's possible to make a fileterd box and insert the gun inside...
Filtering is poor, just a round carbon filter on the iron side, and this one get dirty pretty quick....
My plan is to make some kind of filtering cartridge a little bigger, that would simply be installed on the tube to have a little more filtering, not too much as we need that pressure
i have carbon filters in spare that was for the Fan, so would be a little better i think....
Anyway just wanted to write some lines about it, maybe some will find it usefull, maybe not.
EDIT: I got it for 130euros, not bad i think.... Will see how it will behave in time.
Hackaday review:
http://hackaday.com/2009/02/20/tools-aoyue-968-3-in-1-soldering-and-rework-station/
But lately i was tottaly fedup of inhaling those solder fumes, nose stuffed etc..., bothered me each time, i always tend
to blow a little air while soldering to take that away, and i didn't wanted to wear a Chemical suite as Samuel seems to do
when on his way to his solder station ;D (if you remember that one?)
I believe most of you guys have nothing, or a simple Carbon filter fan, or those supper dupper fancy weller stuff kind of things, confined filter kind of thing (best i think if you're a company)
I had those fans and it was just too much f*ckin noise, and air was just blowed all around in the room, and so solder fume was chaotic and not very centered...
Had to take the fn really down on the board to make it happen....
Adding an extraction tube at the back would have worked better, but that would have been a lot of stuff....
Received the Aoyue yesterday, put it to use, there was not much about it on the web beside that old Hackaday review,
so i was concerned about the compressor noise, i like to have a little music background when working, and don't like factory noises...
Build quality is "ok" cheap plastic for the solder iron, but it's ok, i went for the old version of this Aoyue, because Hakko 936 tips
can be used for it, and i had a couple of spares so.... New Aoyue model has their tips for 20euros each , and the station is double price....
I used Hakko's iron stand, because the Aoyue one, was not very adapted for the Iron + Fume extractor, but nothing too wrong with it...., just
a little clumsy when fitted back in....
Compressor doesn't do too much noise, wich is great, the only small noise that gets out of it is the pressure ball playing in the tube for getting to the top,
a little hit on the side, done, haha, reminds me of those old TV's...
The iron, heats quickly and is ok, fume extraction works good too, you have to stay a little after solering to get all that fume sucked out,
a quick movement after soldering will of course deviate the fumes and will just get back to your noise again, pressure is just enough for fumes so...
As said on that Hackaday review the extraction is made from the heatgun, soooo don't know much about that for the heatgun...
And i guess i'll eat it all back again if using that heatgun, i put this one facing in another room, but it's possible to make a fileterd box and insert the gun inside...
Filtering is poor, just a round carbon filter on the iron side, and this one get dirty pretty quick....
My plan is to make some kind of filtering cartridge a little bigger, that would simply be installed on the tube to have a little more filtering, not too much as we need that pressure
i have carbon filters in spare that was for the Fan, so would be a little better i think....
Anyway just wanted to write some lines about it, maybe some will find it usefull, maybe not.
EDIT: I got it for 130euros, not bad i think.... Will see how it will behave in time.
Hackaday review:
http://hackaday.com/2009/02/20/tools-aoyue-968-3-in-1-soldering-and-rework-station/