Well a rework station is expensive if you compare it to chipquik. Especially for one off jobs like this, and for hobbyists. At work we use it for repairs in the field where we usually use gas powered soldering irons and chipquik.

Posted at 11:43 am on Nov 16th, 2006 by Bart Bilos

It depends. There are really cheap chinese hot air stations for about $150 which are good for desoldering TSOP and QFP, and even BGA if you dare. Yes, they don’t offer what $3000+ IR stations devices offer, but often it’s exactly what you need.

For TSOP i still prefer tweezers, but i know they are not soo cheap. But definitely worthy.

Posted at 1:05 pm on Nov 16th, 2006 by felix domke

404′ed…any mirrors?

Posted at 11:47 pm on Nov 16th, 2006 by Tabajara

…I sure wish his project page worked.

Without flaming too much.. You would think that someone as brillant as that would use a decent hosting service. :)

-White

Posted at 2:21 pm on Nov 17th, 2006 by whitephatt

I just hosted it on a personal webspace, yes its quite bad. Sorry for that.

Posted at 5:15 pm on Nov 17th, 2006 by Bart Bilos

Please e-mail me to get some free hostingspace without any banners and unlimited bandwith. Servers are located in the Netherlands.

Posted at 4:17 am on Nov 18th, 2006 by bigall

At 6:
Can you please send my your email adress, its always useful to have some bandwidth, and i just get 15 hits a day. Its just I got slashdotted by hackaday, didnt know that the interest would be so big.

Posted at 4:50 am on Nov 18th, 2006 by Bart Bilos

Well, you can e-mail me at temp [at] zoutkorrel.nl
I’ll remove this temporary e-mail address after you’ve contacted me, and then I’ll send you my real e-mail address.

Posted at 5:42 am on Nov 18th, 2006 by bigall

Yeah, chipquik is less compelling now that there are cheap hot-air machines available. I bet it still has its uses though.

Posted at 2:40 pm on Nov 18th, 2006 by Wim L

Put a mirror up here: http://bart.lambonet.com/projects/mysterymp3/mysterymp3.html

At 9:
Yeah I have seen the new cheap chinese hot air machines. They usually have the brand AOYUE, I am using one of their temperature regulated stations. It works quite well, nice high quality tips too that dont corrode too fast. So maybe next time.

Posted at 5:44 am on Nov 19th, 2006 by Bart Bilos