Just ordered a new station

[cbass]

Anyone have one?
http://www.all-spec.com/products/FX-888 ... aign=hakko
It has to be better than the POS weller station that lasted 1 tip

[eniam rognab]

my good friend has one and he always makes fun of my lil red weller, i guess that means he likes it

so youre one of those people now huh?

nah, they're good, i hope you enjoy it, looks like a pokemon to me

[cbass]

Well my little red weller was a poorly built peice of shit that I wasted 50 bucks on.
Like I said it lasted through one tip.I was just gonna replace the heater but it was almost as much as the station.
So ya i'm that guy now

[eniam rognab]

hey, that guys a damn good solder'er so maybe thats a good thing!

[cbass]

nah, they're good, i hope you enjoy it, looks like a pokemon to me

Yea th color makes em look cheap but its supposed to b all meatal hell I dont care if its pink if it works good

[eniam rognab]

it should play a jingle when you turn it on and off, i have a rice cooker that does this, drives me crazy, i need to get in there and clip the speaker wires

[cbass]

I clip the wire to door buzzers on cars.My grandad taught me that when I was like 5.He also taught me how to drink PBR about that same time

[eniam rognab]

"son, these are man lessons"

thats awesome cbass, explains alot

back in maine we call it PB-aaaaah

[cbass]

back in maine we call it PB-aaaaah

That reminds me of a story.There's a concrete guy here from way up there.We were talkin one day and he was tellin me about a codnil.I was like I have know Idea what a codnil is.You know a codnil like the baseball team.

[xtian]

Been using Black Jack for the past three years. Very good, cheap, no complaints. Uses standard replaceable handle, heating element and tips:

http://www.circuitspecialists.com/bk200 ... ystem.html

[mhartman]

I love my Hakko station. The Weller that I had was a piece of crap and went through tips like crazy. The Hakko rocks.

[randalp3000]

I have the same hakko at work and the previous modal at home. Great irons, they heat up in like 30 seconds and stay hot.

MAKE SURE YOU READ THE INSTRUCTIONS. has 5 presets not temp up and down.

I f'd up the offset on mine and had to buy $150 tip thermometer to get mine back to the correct temperature.

[Cantplay]

I have the WES51, still on the orig tip.

I don't solder every day though.

John

[cbass]

The tip on my weller lasted a long time.Over a year maybe 2.Sometimes on all day It was the rest of it that was junk and the replacement parts are ridicuolus

[cbass]

Been using Black Jack for the past three years. Very good, cheap, no complaints. Uses standard replaceable handle, heating element and tips:

http://www.circuitspecialists.com/bk200 ... ystem.html

You should have posted that before I ordered tha hakko