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Hi, has anyone any experience of wave soldering machines from china such as these?

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Torch-desktop-Automatic-wave-soldering-solder_60092334263.html?spm=a2700.7724857.normalList.41.60e54489iINwv2

Be nice to find one second hand in the uk. They work off single phase and do not appear to take up much space. No idea how good or bad they are.

Trev

Not the best quality but still pretty cool. Apologies for the poor lighting. Will try to capture some better quality images.

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In case anyone is interested in some passive feeders, I found some on thingiverse, printed them off and they work a treat. Really impressed with them.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2506053

Trev

Hi

Thanks all for the win98 upgrade instructions and the general information on building a new pc. I decided to take the win95 machine I had and upgrade to win98 to enable usb support.

Whilst at it I cleaned the PC and got rid of all the dust build up.

I seem to have a problem with the win98 system though. I run rvplace and it performs a warmup okay. Also the dsptest runs perfectly. When I select fuducial correct though it moves to the right position but as soon as it tries to access the camera it crashes. I used the driver for the video card based on the information recently posted about building a pc.

Anyone experienced this issue before?

Trev

Has anyone tried converting 8mm feeders to 16 or 24mm? Need to open a unit up and investigate how much of a task this is but I have a few 8mm spare that need a service and was thinking it would be really useful to convert them instead as I have no 16mm or 24mm feeders.

Thanks

Trev

Hi

I am now on the look out for the best way to mount PCBs on the machine bed. I have found some magnetic blocks from Grove but the corner pieces do not have the dial that rotates and holds the board down. Am thinking they are probably not much use without the dial. Not sure if I can really fix them. I have an idea to make my own but if the magnets work well and I can come up with a solution then its quicker and easier for me just to buy those. Do pople use the magnets?

Any thoughts from folk?

Trev

HI

I created a feeder type from the standard 10x8mm. I loaded my components into the feeder and set components to lanes from the software.

When I went to test I found that the feeder would go to lane 1 but would index lane 10 and vice versa. I went to the feeder setup and tried to change the ref1 and ref2 positions but it said that only ref1 was reachable. Ref2 I could not set. When I swapped ref1 and ref2 positions then both became reachable. But in this swapped state the lane positions are totally confused. As said it thinks lane1 position is index 10 but wont let me change them.

Is this a common beginner gotcha?

Trev

I saw on eBay a couple of manual paste printers. Anyone used one or recommend a cheap paste printer?

Hi. Anyone know of a single phase, 3 done reflow oven for sale?

Trev