Steve, At one of my former employers, I have emptied a medium sized solder pot in the past using a very large soup ladel and a significant number of large 1m square cardboard egg cartons courtesy of my local MacDonalds burger bar!! I kid you not, it works extremely well, the solder solidifies quicker than you would believe, without any burning or charring, and you get perfect half-egg sized ingots when cooled :) Obviously, you need to take the obvious precautions with welders gown, gaiters, gauntlets, visor, etc, which gets damn hot after half an hour of emptying solder... cheers Justin Braime Senior Production Engineer Racal Instruments Ltd 480 Bath Rd, Slough Berkshire, SL1 6BE England DDI: +44 (0)1628 610392 Tel: +44 (0)1628 604455 Fax: +44 (0)1628 662017 E-mail: [log in to unmask] > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Gregory [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 1:46 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [TN] Emptying wave solder pot > > Hi All! > > In a couple of weeks, I'm going to have to empty the wave solder pot on > our Treiber. > > In the past, I remember round cardboard containers being used to put the > solder in after ladling it from the pot. Does anybody know where I can get > those? > > Thanks! > > -Steve Gregory- > ******************************************************************************************************* The information contained in this e-mail is confidential. It may also be legally privileged. It is intended only for the stated addressee(s) and access to it by any other person is unauthorised. If you are not an addressee, you must not disclose, copy, circulate or in any other way use or rely on the information contained in this e-mail. Such unauthorised use may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please inform RACAL INSTRUMENTS LTD. immediately by phoning +44 (0)1628 604455 (ask for the I.T. dept) and delete it and all copies from your system. ******************************************************************************************************* --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------