I am looking for a cheap good quality heat gun for SMD soldering (one that can be plugged in in Australia, or USB powered). Does anyone have any recommendations?
Hi,
If you don't already, check this Aussie out, doing Apple repairs.
I think somewhere he does list his soldering tools.
Just about every repair video he uses hot gun to unsolder and solder.
Tom... 
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Expensive!! Looks good quality though.
Hi,
Unfortunately you get what you pay for.
Some of my repair work is SMD but not those mutli-pinned CPU chips etc. so no need of heat flow tech.
Tom...
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Get these in order:
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get a good soldering iron example, HAKKO.
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get a stereo microscope.
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consider an SMD soldering hot plate
And/Or
Why not a heat gun?
Hot air is okay for soldering a single component example I.C., resistor, SOT-23 etc.
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When it comes to a board of components, the PCB needs to be heated/soaked/reflowed: this is not the job of a hot air wand.
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A soldering iron heats up components leads very fast (less than two seconds), a hot air takes significant time.
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A hotplate (like the MHP-30) can solder a board section in under 20 seconds.
I need something cheap to remove a couple components from a Nano, and then replace them with new ones. I wrecked one board by trying to use a soldering iron, so I want to try something different.
Hi,
Cheap Nano.... no heat required.
I have about a dozen Nanos, original and clone, you can never have too many!!!!
Tom...
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What you need is practice and a good soldering iron.
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That is definitely missing. Mines a set temp 400ºC clunky horrible thing.
Maybe I'll save up for this:
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