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Hakko FX-888 soldering station discontinued

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T4P:

--- Quote from: saturation on November 16, 2012, 03:37:11 pm ---a method to hot swap tips

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Hot swap? It will eat into the FX-951 market ...

--- Quote from: david77 on November 16, 2012, 05:59:24 pm ---Not hard at all. Used to be quite common back when cheap stations weren't available.
Today the Chinese supply them ready made: http://www.china-zhongdi.com/zd-99.htm

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Weller's still making them ...

nanofrog:

--- Quote from: saturation on November 16, 2012, 03:37:11 pm ---If one wanted to improve the 888, what I think some useful add ons would be:

auto-off
power on light
a method to hot swap tips
lower prices, especially the EU and UK market

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I suspect it would cut into sales of the FX-951 if they had, so they intentionally restricted the feature set to prevent this.

andersm:

--- Quote from: T4P on November 16, 2012, 06:51:47 pm ---
--- Quote from: david77 on November 16, 2012, 05:59:24 pm ---Not hard at all. Used to be quite common back when cheap stations weren't available.
Today the Chinese supply them ready made: http://www.china-zhongdi.com/zd-99.htm

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Weller's still making them ...

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You may be thinking of Velleman, but who knows who their OEM is.

SgtRock:
Greetings EEVBees:

--Now available on eBay. These are bullet proof.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/HAKKO-936-SOLDERING-STATION-907-IRON-/200848774453?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2ec3851535

--If you do not have to have the latest and you want to save some money, get one of these. I have two of these, one for light and one for heavy, both with the green LED Power On Light Mod. Dave has an even better Hakko Mod. see his video.

"Happy for you to desoldering, please."
Wun Hung Lo 1948 -

Best Regards
Clear Ether

T4P:
Nope. Weller. Mostly whatever you see on zhongdi is a clone of weller
Velleman's OEM for theirs is zhongdi
OH wait, weller's still making them, in red colour it's the WLC100

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