De-Soldering Questions

[MFRD]

I say hack-o, but what do I know. It's not like I work for them

 

[hkrick]

I have about 10 years experience in repair and restoration of vintage equipment of all kinds except tubes. Now I am far from an expert and everything I know, I learned from the great people here on AK.

For the cost of a good scope, both pieces of soldering equipment can be had. An oscilloscope would probably be the last piece of equipment I would buy, imho.

I bought an oscilloscope and frequency generator first, and they will be the last I use - for testing and tuning.

 

[Tonoje]

Ok, for all you Hakko experts, how do you pronounce it, Hock-Oh, Hack-Oh, or somewhere in between?



Doug

I go with "hacko" (i.e. the short "a" I use for "cat") but whatever you're already using is probably a correct pronunciation. There is no "the" correct pronunciation of it in English.

In Japanese, Hakko has a short "a", a doubled "k", and a long "o". All Japanese vowels have a short and a long version, and generally they don't precisely match so-called standard English, from either side of the Atlantic. Often the distinction between long and short, which is important in Japanese, is not maintained in romanisation.

Hakko is a compound of hachi and ko, so the double k, definitely pronounced distinctly (with a stop) from the single k in the entirely different word "hako", represents a contraction of two words (or morphemes, but let's stay away from that).

 

[Young46]

I go with "hacko" (i.e. the short "a" I use for "cat") but whatever you're already using is probably a correct pronunciation. There is no "the" correct pronunciation of it in English.

In Japanese, Hakko has a short "a", a doubled "k", and a long "o". All Japanese vowels have a short and a long version, and generally they don't precisely match so-called standard English, from either side of the Atlantic. Often the distinction between long and short, which is important in Japanese, is not maintained in romanisation.

Hakko is a compound of hachi and ko, so the double k, definitely pronounced distinctly (with a stop) from the single k in the entirely different word "hako", represents a contraction of two words (or morphemes, but let's stay away from that).

 

[Tonoje]

Good one, but the thing is, I was thrown by the question about "hock" initially (as in, why pronounce it that way?) Because I would spell it differently to represent my own pronunciation. That's the difficulty when we're from different countries. I guess he was asking about what I would spell as a "hah" pronunciation. Or just "ha", I don't really need the second "h".

 

[avionic]

Been using these since 1978. They were a standard issue in the avionics shop CTK's .

 

[hkrick]

Took a few to receive the non-brand name

My thoughts, exactly - heat fast - keep heat localized.

And on second thought about an all-in-one solder sucker.... I decided to go with a spring operated sucker. Why? I can use my variable heat solder iron to heat fast. I'm not sure about the jerking motion of the spring operated ones, but for my budget and functionality.... I bought one.

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Took a few days to receive this. Haven't used in real world application yet, just some dry-fire practice. The trigger is a bit heavy and has some creep, but a smooth break. The kick? Yep it kicks, but not unmanageable. Ergonomics? For a large single action.... A+