u/Colonel-_-Burrito

I've tried a thick chisel tip at 365°C with a flood of flux and some unleaded solder, after this wasn't working I just went to the hot air gun. Had it set to 350°C and 40% airflow, had it at 365°C and 50% airflow. I just can't get this port off for the life of me. I don't want to ruin this board, as it's not very replaceable, but I've heated it and let it cool a couple times now with zero luck.

It's clear that I'm not getting a very good heat transfer from the iron, so the hot air station is the obvious next move. But if this can't get it either, I'm not sure what to do now

The rest of the solder melts and wicks up just fine, but I'm left with a flat spot now. Touching the flat spot with the iron just scuffs it under the microscope, and it doesn't seem to melt no matter how long the tip is held. Any assistance would be nice.

Thinking about getting a bench for simple basic hobby use. Not sure how *actually* useful a bench really is, and if size does matter for this.

Particularly looking at this $40 bench, with measuring tools, several lenses and a lamp. It is 19.8" long, and I'm not sure if this is too short, as it sounds like it's a very short/limited use bench.

Any insights would be nice, thank you.

Recently learned that single player wind speed is for some reason much lower/inconsistent as opposed to multiplayer.

I hear you can set the wind speed to never change, this way you don't have to deal with the inconsistencies and can just have a steady speed of 7 for example.

How to do this?