Weller Zero Smoke EL Fume Extractor - Part 2 

I might have to make one for my Metcal extractor. It needs looking at as it keeps beeping on startup which i think is block filter but they are lovely and clean. nus be a service manual out there somewhere. Still that looks good, i might make a holder on it for the remote start button to keep it all tidy.

I would watch that SDG video.

There is practically none.

Tried that, the shadow from the light is too much.

Yeah, possible to have two heads. Don't know how more effective it would be though, they could interefere with each other.

@@EEVblog2 assuming you have equal length snakes that are bent to a similar shape, the suction should distribute evenly. Otherwise the different flow resistance will make one of them suck better than the other.

Tried that, casts to big of a shadow with the angled light.

I've been experimenting with adding airflow from another fan to create a gentle draft over the work area. You can move the extractor 300mm away from the work area with only a tiny bit of air movement

@@sdgelectronics Being asthmatic I have learned since day one to blow out when fumes appear when soldering coz the fumes can make me wheeze......so I guess I am doing the same thing LOL!

@@sdgelectronics Yep, sounds likely.

@@IanScottJohnston Done that for years, just a light slow blow as the solder starts to melt did it for me. now use the extractor as i do a lot of soldering under the microscope so above the hot spot.

They were on special in australia for about $180 USD.

@@redolgreg WoooW, what a gift .... Lucky people 😃

At that price, I’d suspect counterfeit. They retail for US $800 - $1200. At that, following the usual 100% markup, I’d expect a wholesale price of about $350 - $400. You can’t make it up with volume if you’re selling at $180…

@@harryshector Nope, genuine stock from Element 14. Up to 90% off warehouse clearance sale. They had 15 of them in stock, everyone on the forum snapped them up.

Fused! Unlike the WE1010 iron.

It doesn't work, the smoke just gets blown around the room and not filtered...

​@@jaro6985 Read the entire comment, where I point out a simple and cheap way to filter the exhaust. BTW, I have used this method as a professional engineer for over 40 years, and the simple truth is the the "stuff" in the "smoke" is vaporized rosin, which if you look at it the solder or the tin is not "floating around" in the air because at room temperature, it solidifies quickly as it cools and gravity pulls it out of the air. It will put a light dusting of rosin powder on your bench where it is blown, which can be easily cleaned with IPA and a paper towel. That is if you don't add the coffee filter I described, in which case when that starts to turn yellow / amber, throw it out and put a new one on. And just in case you think that this is all a "toxic" compound, the ingredients of rosin flux are Tree Sap and alcohol.

@@shazam6274 Coffee filter wont work, sorry, terrible method.

@@jaro6985just because you can’t imagine it working doesn’t mean it doesn’t work. It’s profoundly unscientific to think like that. You could always combine it with a whole room air cleaner with an ioniser built in to take out pollen and all sorts from the air for hobbyist soldering in an enclosed space.

@@shazam6274 I might try your coffee filter method. But I have doubts about it’ll work with rosin free, no clean flux type fumes. Have you tried it with other types of flux?

Beat the porn bots, impressive. Or are you a LED porn bot?

@@EEVblog2 led? Why I'd be a LED bot 🤔

@@eimparas Oh, I thoguht your icon looked like a LED array, but it's a pin header.

@@EEVblog2 actually is the OG Raspberry pi header. Why? Honestly I don't know

Really? Well then, make it. I'm interested to that

No other reports.

@@EEVblog2 no