[Jewelry making - Article 00565] - Re: [Orchid] Soldering station

[FrodoGem]

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    After following the soldering station responses for a couple of
    days, I am beginning to believe that bench jeweler's achieve the
    peak of their creativity in how they construct and arrange their
    workplace.  It certainly has imporantance to me all these years. 

    I have one bench for my dental lathe where I do polishing and some
    types of drilling and grinding.  However, due partly to lack of
    space, I do the majority of my fabrication at my soldering bench
    where my Bench Mate system is located.  I also keep my micromotor
    and flex shaft at the solder bench.  The range hood exhaust with a
    high volume fan over the bench was giving me a problem drawing dust
    across my soldering area.  (I described glass covers in a different
    response to help solve the problem)  While glass covers can help
    with the worst of the mess, it is still not a good idea to have dust
    all around.  Worse yet any oil in the drilling and grinding mess can
    end up floating on top of your pickle making it even more difficult
    to get a good solder joint after the picke process. 

    I solved my problem by using epoxy (the kind in the hardware store
    that has a display showing  a golf ball and several other objects
    adhered to a pop bottle.  I think it is called PC-7).  I epoxied a
    vacuum cleaner crevice tool, flat side on top and long side across,
    to the back of a Bench Mate bench pin.  I plugged the end of the
    crevice tool with epoxy and drilled a the side facing the front of
    the pin full of holes so that it looked like a sieve.  It is
    important to get enough holes so the vacuum can get enough air to
    keep the motor cool.  I used a 2.5 MM round burr and drilled the
    holes as close as possible without running into each other.  I also
    use a Miele variable speed vacuum cleaner with a true HEPA filter. 
    With the variable speed, I can be sure not to over tax the motor
    through lack of air to cool it.  This  setup solves most of the dust
    problem.  Daily cleaning is still necessary. 

    Howard Woods FrodoGem AT aol.com In the beautiful foothills near Eagle
    Idaho 

    Now when I have some dusty work to do at my soldering station, I
    grab my special bench pin, slide it on the the mounting plate, plug
    in the vac hose turn on the vac and grind away. 


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