Welcome to my Repair and Rework Lab Setup!
Hiya! I’m Abacus of FooseyRhode. I specialize in repair of a specific type of computer part called an ASIC Hashboard, and those PCBs are what this setup is built around servicing.
Honorable mentions at my desk that might catch some curiosity
The Overhead Cable Trays.
The rail mounted, Digital Microscope.
The Heatgun Glory Hole.
Soldering Iron suspended by pulleys.
The Quad-table-top fans (Fan Deck).
1 and 2.) The overhead cable trays are super helpful for the obvious, but also for storing some accessories out of the way.
My primary heatgun for example. With it up there, wrist strain from the heavy heatgun gun hose is practically eliminated.
I also mounted my PC and digital microscope up there. Microscope benefits because table vibrations are gone, and computer is just there for cable management.
3.) See image 3. Looks crazy but it’s very necessary for my work. The PCB I work on are typically single layer PCB secured to a giant aluminum plate. A lone heatgun is not capable of achieving solder flow, and hot plates are extremely impractical for PCB like this. Thus, I apply heat from above, and below.
Getting the damn thing mounted safely was the hardest part. I used a pneumatic vesa monitor mount, but backwards. I hammered the vesa mount into shape and secured it to a desk beam. Then I secured the opposite end of the mount to the heatgun.
4.) The pulleys just keep the soldering iron cable out of my way. Honestly, I’m just resolving a minor inconvenience for myself with this.
5.) My 3D printed Fan Deck! It’s four 120mm fans powered through a potentiometer so I can control the speed. It’s used primarily when I am diagnosing a board.
The boards I work on use around 40-90 amps when operating, but for diagnostic, require only 10-20 amps to test properly. Point being, they heat up very rapidly, and heat affects my diagnostic. The Fan Deck is a means to cool boards down while simultaneously injecting power into them.