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Question: Do any of you actually use the fume extractor and vacuum pickup tool? I was looking at the xtronic 4040 which lacks these features but is $90 cheaper so I am having trouble justifying my purchase of this unit. Also where do the fumes go, I would like to vent them out a window rather than have it recirculate in my room.
Document: I'm actually totally ok with the sheet metal construction... but the holder doesn't hold the iron as nice as it could. The iron wiggles and droops in the stand a little more than I'm used to.Pickup tool:The iron has to be on for the pickup tool to work, even though there is a separate switch for iron and vacuum. I wish you could use the pickup tool without turning the iron on. Also, active use of the pickup tool blocks the hot air.
I also enjoyed the various vacuum tube pickup attachments as well. An interesting thing to note for this unit's iron is the slight but well made offset angle on the tip, this enables you to work with the fume extractor while not feeling like everything is off or the extractor is in the way.
The vacuum is very weak, but it seems like it should be strong enough for picking up IC's. It doesn't make much noise, at least.Fume extraction:This is a negative, IMO. The vacuum is just not strong enough to gather much fumes, except when the iron is being held very still and perfectly upright. I almost feel like they should just put the fume extractor in the soldering iron stand.
All of the items were packed well. I was happily surprised at the construction of the unit as I wasn't sure what to expect. It did have a paint-like odor to it, but that has since gone away. The station is very solid, the hoses and cords were of high quality. The iron had a good feel to it. I did notice that the fume extractor was not actually removable from the iron. The tubes can be removed but part of it is molded into the iron handle.
The idea is that the tip picks up the fumes when soldering, which it does. However, it also makes the iron more difficult to maneuver. I am likely to buy one of the lower-priced X-Tronic stations to get an iron that is separate from the vacuum.-It is not clear in the description, but the vacuum pickup uses the same vacuum as the soldering iron. You *can* run both the iron and vacuum pickup, it just means the iron has no vacuum for fumes.
This is definitely the fastest iron that I have owned. It gets up to temperature in 15 seconds or less. The hot air is also very quick to get up to temp. Fahrenheit or Celsius is just two button pushes away. The temperature is extremely consistent. The unit comes with 10 tips that should have one to meet just about any need I could think of. I did use the unit with the fume extractor.
Then there is the fact that the XTronic handle is dismantled, greatly increasing the surface area where the Aoyue handle is not. This is like comparing burning steel wool to a steel rod. Hardly even apples to oranges. All of the other videos by this poster are in regards to Aoyue products.I did use the pick-up tool one time. It was pretty straight forward and worked as expected.
The soldering iron half is only so so. Can't say it's bad, it's just not great. I would say though that expecting to put a 0402 part back down with a long skinny tip is probably a bit much to ask ( PCB soaks up all the heat the tip can deliver ). That task is probably better done with the hot air as well. I don't know if I like the fume extractor or not, seems to make using the iron clumsy.
This comes in extremely handy when using the hot air gun to de-solder a component from a circuit board and not having to worry about it slipping out of your tweezers or knocking something else out of place. Like the rest of this unit the Vacuum tool is made of high quality parts.
Mine quit working after the first use. Attempts at contacting them to fix this have been futile. I have emailed them and called them never actually receiving any service. Save your money and just purchase elsewhere.
Answer: yes