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| jack1197:
Im planning on buying a soldering station, and to a lesser degree, a hot air rework station(currently i have one or two wall plug irons). I was looking around and found the ATTEN AT8586, and it seems fairly decent for an entry level soldering iron and hot air rework station. I live in new zealand, and I have found that a website called focalbga.com sells them for about 100US including postage to new zealand(which is truly horrible, about 45US). I have read that this website has sold fake/rip-off products, but did refund them. I don't think there would be a large risk of this being any worse than the average quality of this specific product, due to it being very close to the retail price others are offering it at. I have a very limited budget, being at high-school, so i would really like to get the cheapest that i can get without getting something that performs poorly. Basically, is this worth getting, or will i regret it, i am planing on buying a tip to go with it as well. thanks for any advice. focalbga product: http://www.focalbga.com/atten-at8586-2-in-1-soldering-station-for-smd-rework_p948.html atten page: http://www.atten.com/product/at8586-hot-air-rework-station/ |
| amyk:
The usual advice is to buy one of each (hot air gun and soldering station), that way you can use one to fix the other if it breaks. |
| GeoffS:
I recently bought a Yihua 898D 2 in 1 and I'm quite happy with it. It arrived with spare heater cartridges for the soldering iron and the heat gun. When I opened it up to replace the European power cord, it seemed to be quite well made. It gets up to temperature very quickly and (to the limit to which I can test it) seems to keep a stable temperature. Delivery was about 4 days and from the US, not China. Total cost $A112 Here's a link to the eBay sale. Fixed link, thanks miguelvp |
| jack1197:
--- Quote from: GeoffS on July 13, 2014, 02:20:32 pm ---I recently bought a Yihua 898D 2 in 1 and I'm quite happy with it. It arrived with spare heater cartridges for the soldering iron and the heat gun. When I opened it up to replace the European power cord, it seemed to be quite well made. It gets up to temperature very quickly and (to the limit to which I can test it) seems to keep a stable temperature. Delivery was about 4 days and from the US, not China. Total cost $A112 Here's a link to the eBay sale. --- End quote --- thanks, also geoffs, your link isn't working for me amyk, thanks, but if that isn't likely to be an issue, i would really like to save my money, also, the postage for two separate units, although it would probably be less if they were packaged together, would likely be worse that it already is(45US on a 55US product). So what im getting out of this is: getting a cheap one will do just fine(assuming I don't want a rock solid product that will last 100 years) |
| miguelvp:
Fixed link http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/151065315101 |
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