Personally Mac, I prefer and am used to working with hot air. For me, it works pretty nicely. Admittedly, you have to be careful, and there are those days that I blow off neighboring components, but those are usually easy to stick back on (resistors and caps).

However, I will keep this in mind. Maybe I could use it for some of the larger DSPs and stuff I work with.

Gary

I'm blessed watching God do what He does best. I've had a few rough years, and I'm still not back to where I want to be, but I'm on the way and things are looking far better now than what they were!