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Weller Soldering Station
Posted by: bibilit on 2013-05-12 04:45:10 Found this morning a Weller WEC-20 Soldering Station. Was dirty, but complete, and only 5 €. Tested, and working great. Not mine on picture, but the same layout.
Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2013-05-12 08:20:37 < insanely jealous > Nice nab! < /insanely jealous >
Posted by: coius on 2013-05-12 14:08:07 Just like the one that was stolen out of my honda. Those are nice soldering station. Looking around ebay, it seems the head units die on those. I am not sure if it's the transformer or what, but I just found a bunch of dead ones. i am looking at replacing the one I lost with a hakko. I have a desoldering gun made by Hakko and it's nice. has a pump with a heated tip. The tip stays hot, and when you put it over the solder, it melts it and you squeeze the trigger and the pump sucks it up into a chamber. Those are made like tanks. I suggest you get one of those as well. much better than braided or solder suckers. It's about $300. Get the one from Japan, not the one from china. japan's are built better.
Posted by: mcdermd on 2013-05-12 21:48:19 I have the same Hakko 808 desoldering gun. It's really nice for taking RAM slots and the like out. I use a Weller WD-1 soldering station with a WSP-80 pencil. I love it. It's one of the best gifts my wife has bought for me! I think uniserver uses a Hakko soldering station and really likes it.
Posted by: uniserver on 2013-05-12 22:05:30 I think uniserver uses a Hakko soldering station believe it or not i was going to buy that!!!! I bought this station as a temporary, just to get me by. So far i love it, in fact i bought another one i have 2. Technically i have 3 because, I bought my wife one, to do these SMD electronics project kits with. They are only 19.99, they are very rugged, the tip is quality, does not degrade. http://www.microcenter.com/product/391342/Low-Cost_Soldering_Station if my wife buys me a Hakko next december for my birthday i will not complain! 🙂 but for now these are working out quite well!
Posted by: krye on 2013-05-13 07:21:43 Congrats on the conquest. I've always wanted a Weller, but could never bring myself to drop the ~$200 on the model that I wanted. My wife picked up a Haako FX888 for me last Christmas. It was only $90 on Amazon and it has to be the best soldering iron I've ever used.
Posted by: insaneboy on 2013-05-14 07:43:11 I'm a cheap ass. I got one like this works better than the ole radio shack pencil. 😛 I just tinker with pre 80's audio gear, for that it works great. and the hot air is perfect for melting heat shrink tubes. :lol:
Posted by: mcdermd on 2013-05-14 08:49:54 I need to get a hot air station at some point.
Posted by: olePigeon on 2013-05-14 09:56:20 People tell me I'm full of hot air all the time!
Posted by: uniserver on 2013-05-14 10:46:07 mcdermd you totally do need to get one man 🙂 techkinght was complaining about his cheaper Chinese one he has.( in one of his youtube vids ) The one where he removes the borns filter from a se/30 board. Maybe spend a few bucks and have the wife get you a nicer one 🙂
Posted by: trag on 2013-05-14 11:18:37 Looking around ebay, it seems the head units die on those. I am not sure if it's the transformer or what, but I just found a bunch of dead ones. It'd be kind of ironic if they all have bad capacitors...
Posted by: CC_333 on 2013-05-14 11:46:21 It'd be kind of ironic if they all have bad capacitors... The way this world seems to work, it probably is bad capacitors... c
Posted by: Macdrone on 2013-05-14 11:50:14 hmmm i may have to get one then.
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