On Wednesday 29 November 2017 15:32:02 andy pugh wrote: > On 29 November 2017 at 19:54, Cecil Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > > Does anyone have experience with a hot air station that you have > > purchased over the last year or so. If so I would really like to > > hear your opinion and the model number you have. > > I recently bought one of these: > https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/301966004104 > > And despite the very low price I am more than satisfied with it. I > have used it for a variety of tasks, from 0603 resistors to 100-pin > microprocessors and it has been entirely fine. > > With the money you save you could buy some vacuum tweezers, that being > the next puzzle to solve.
I'll 2nd that, I have an 853D which has the 70 watt iron too. My only bitch is that the cords to the hand pieces are about 1/2 too short, so I'm alway trying to find a place to park it where it will reach what I'm working on. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
