[ELECTRON] Maklab Shopping List... Help needed....

[Roy Mohan Shearer]

I think a lot of other fablabs do provied some consumables, so
wouldn't rule it out. Given that the lab is about fabrication
generally, it might be that folk are dipping in and out of electronics
works amongst other things so some in-house solder on hand would be
useful to them. Persnally I have no problems with lead free solder.

Have added some thoughts:

*Per workstation:*  (Not sure
1 Temperature controlled soldering iron, (preferrably with hot rework tool)
1 Tip Cleaner
Selection of electrostatic safe tweezers
Picks
PCB vise
Magnifying Lamp
Current limited bench power supply
Solder spool holder
Screwdriver sets (precision, security bits and normal)
Decent Multimeter - (with a discontinuity beeper pls)
Desoldering tools (great for learner hackers)
Wire snips / strippers
Crocodile clipped leads
Breadboard? - maybe people should bring these in if they are using them
Fume extractor - if not workshop extraction.
Helping hands? - not sure if the pcb vice does the same job

*Other Equipment:*
Digital storage oscilloscope
PCB milling machine (The Roland Modella seems popular and doubles up
as a 3d scanner)
Frequency Generator
Solder paste dispenser
Reflow oven
Stereo Microscope

On 5 February 2012 17:04, Thomas Parry <yrrapt at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure if I have the wrong of the stick, but I would've thought that
> consumables would have to be supplied by the user, could get very expensive
> otherwise.
>
> I don't have a problem with lead free, I use it exclusively.  You just have
> to make sure you have your iron set to a higher temperature and use good
> quality solder like a 0.7mm multicore solder.  I mean obviously horses for
> courses but I certainly don't have any problem with it.
>
> I don't have the answer to this, but if most manufactured products use lead
> free then wouldn't lead free be more suited to repairs and mods coz you're
> matching the solder already used?
>
> Tom
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Clive Mitchell <bigclive1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> A solder reel holder from Rapid Electronics and the brass wool style
>> tip wiper from the same place?  Also some desoldering braid and LEAD
>> based solder, since the lead free requirement is primarily aimed at
>> the large scale manufacturing industry and traditional lead based is
>> not only easier to work with, but also compatible for most solder
>> repairs and mods of existing equipment.
>>
>> On 5 February 2012 15:52, Thomas Parry <yrrapt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I can't think of anything that's not already on that list, it's pretty
>> > comprehensive I would say.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Clive Mitchell
>>
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