Can someone tell me if this a good deal and of reasonable quality for a hobbiest?
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18 years ago
-- Chris W Gift Giving Made Easy
Can someone tell me if this a good deal and of reasonable quality for a hobbiest?
-- Chris W Gift Giving Made Easy
oops that page didn't give the price. It is $65
Here is the page with the price
-- Chris W Gift Giving Made Easy
Hi Chris, Since you are asking, the unit you link has specs more than suitable for what you need. They make a comparison to a Weller, for a few bucks more you can have a Weller. In my opinion I would buy the Weller. Something like this one:
I haven't used one of those, but I recently bought one of these:
any approval?? don't see it in the spec sheet. rw
I have a very similar iron and would recommend it to anyone. There are two variants over here (UK), one with a straight digital temperature readout and the other with a LED bar-graph. Spares are easy to come by and I haven't had to replace a tip in several years of use. Throw away the sponge though and get some form of brass turnings tip cleaner and/or one of those tinning pots made by Multicore.
Treat yourself. Hobbyist need good tools just the same as the professionals. I ran a large maintenance organisation for many years and if I could have thrown those crappy 'Curie Point' switch Wellers out of the window I would have done so but the military supply chain had standardised on them.
Cheers - Joe
Chris,
While the price is attractive and it might be a great deal, there are a few things that bother me about the specs.
I've used Weller/Ungar stuff in the past, but now I would go with a Hakko soldering station. You would pay a bit more ($90 or so) for a 936-12 ESD safe station but you definitely know what you are getting. It doesn't have the direct temperature readout, but you don't really need that for hobby work. Specs for 936-12 are at
-- James T. White
you should take a look at this
www.noullogan.home.ro/logan/index.htm
it is awesome
Thanks for the suggestion. That sounds like a better solder station than the one I was looking at and I found it for under $80. Not a bad deal so I added it to my wish list. Hopefully I will get it for Christmas if I don't decided to buy it for myself sooner :)
-- Chris W Gift Giving Made Easy
This model is available through Marlin P. Jones as stock # 15845-TL for $46.95.
John
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