[chbot] hot air bath, heating element - on the scrounge

Robin Gilks robin at gilks.org
Mon Jul 21 03:56:38 BST 2014


> I am contemplating making a hot air bath - a unit designed to
> pre-heat a PCB prior to hot air SMT rework or assembly.
>
> So I am on the scrounge for an old hot air gun (broken will be fine),
> or even a hair dryer might work.
>
> If you could bring it along to the robotics meeting this eve, I will
> be quite grateful.

How does an old breadmaker (Panasonic SD250) sound - I think it has a 500w
element in it, its only the drive coupling to the pan which is kaput. You
could use the bake now program with the timer or there are enough bits to
allow temperature control using the standard Arduino!!

-- 
Robin Gilks





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