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Hakko FX-888 soldering station discontinued
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RCMR:
They've destroyed the best feature of the FX888 -- the cool blue/yellow color scheme!

While all those old 9-series clones look much the same, the FX888 was totally distinctive and stood out like a sore thumb on any workbench.  What a great marketing tool for Hakko!   You'd probably never notice any other soldering station on a busy workbench but you can't miss a Hakko 888.

Of course I also agree with the consensus that the digital button setup is just change for the sake of change.

I suspect they've got a new crew in the marketing department who decided "ooh... we can show our market leadership by putting some cool buttons and a digital readout on the front instead of a boring old knob".  These marketing droids have probably never used a soldering iron in the  life -- except perhaps to try and re-heat a stale latte'
Bored@Work:
It is not a big loss. Hakko's pricing for the 240V version, the difficulty to get a 240V version at all, and the strange 240V special version for China made it rather unattractive in the 240V world. They might have dropped it, because it might not have sold well. The Fisher-Price "My first soldering Iron"colour and  look certainly did not help selling it in regions where people prefer their tools looking like tools and not like "cute" toys.
RCMR:

--- Quote from: Bored@Work on November 15, 2012, 10:37:00 pm --- The Fisher-Price "My first soldering Iron"colour and  look certainly did not help selling it in regions where people prefer their tools looking like tools and not like "cute" toys.
--- End quote ---
Oh... I feel special now  :-DD :-DD :-DD
IanB:
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital soldering stations are a pretty neat idea.

--with apologies to Douglas Adams
SLJ:
FYI  - Today from Hakko USA: 

The FX-888D will not be available in North America until early next year. The current FX-888 has the same power and uses the same tips and the FX-888D will use. When the FX-888D is released you will be able to purchase from any authorized distributor.
Best regards,
Andy Mitchell
American Hakko Products
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