u/VinoLamar

Good Afternoon Gents,

My manager gave me permission to get a tier list for the Basic, Mid, and Top tier of the hot air guns. Pictured is the hot air gun that I ordered. The first one we had was garbage. It was the hot air gun wit the fan on the handle. Was garbage. So i improved upon it by getting the tube one, but where I messed up at as you can see is that the air and temp are on the same nozzle. So i'm allowed to get a new one but he wants a tier list and also for me to explain the differences of them all.

I deal mainly with laptops and micro pcs like the Optiplex 7000 series. And laptops are Dell, and Lenovo and some HP. The ones for businesses so for dell it'll be the latitudes and Thinkpads like T14s and etc. The main project I will be doing when I do get the heat gun is We about 11 Optiplex 7000s that have bad front USB ports and since those connectors are hard to find, I need to take them off some bad units and replace them. Since I cannot control the separate nozzles, I end up burning the piece even tho I do get the usb connector off. What I did learn about the hot air guns were that there were two types. Helical wind and straight wind, I knew nothing about a week ago. But yeah I would love to hear you all thoughts on the topic on what you guys recommend. You guys already helped me a lot with the flux/solder situation as well. So thanks again in advance!

Good Morning,

So in the pictures are the flux that I used to use and what I use now. And also wondering if the current solder/flux I use is good enough and if not I'm open to suggestions.

When I got to the job I was given the Plusivo and the Chipquik SMDLT10, but what I upgraded to was The Deximro leaded 63/37 and I did some searches and seen that Kester was a brand used a lot. Was just wondering thoughts on it and If I had to upgrade what people suggested. Thanks!

Good Morning,

Based on the pictures that I have provided. Anyone know where I cand find these at. I bought the wrong ones. And as you can see by the part that I took out that I can't reuse the part. I would want to. but I made the mistake of buying a 2 in 1 solder/hot air station. Not knowing that much at the time but then learning that I need to find one where the hot air and the temp are on different nozzles and not on the same nozzle. But the hot air gun I was using prior at work had the fan on the handle. I even learned a day ago about vertical/hilical wind with hot air guns as well. I guess you gotta go through it to learn about it. Even grabbed a new toy with the Sugon A9 solder station. I don't think until I get a new hot gun I won't be able to take the parts out and still use it due to not being able to completely control the air/temp in my current gun. But if anyone could point to the replacement usb, I would be most appreciative. They are for micro form pcs (Optiplex 7000 model mainly).