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I found these today at my local electronic surplus/junkyard warehouse. With all this talk about Hakko's I wonder if they are worth picking up.
Everyone's talking about the FX-888 being discontinued and i'm using a cheap radio-shack soldering iron.
Soldering existed before temp controlled irons became the norm. When I started, speed and a touch was part of the skill. When we didn't have main power available, I could even solder with a candle, at worse with different sized nails held with pliers if we didn't have thick gauge copper wires we could sharpen to a tip and dip in rosin.
Quote from: saturation on November 26, 2012, 06:36:24 pmSoldering existed before temp controlled irons became the norm. When I started, speed and a touch was part of the skill. When we didn't have main power available, I could even solder with a candle, at worse with different sized nails held with pliers if we didn't have thick gauge copper wires we could sharpen to a tip and dip in rosin. A thick gage copper wire eh... You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank.
You yunguns have a lot to learn:
Quote from: saturation on November 27, 2012, 04:10:49 pmYou yunguns have a lot to learn:And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you.No I believe you I just can't resist a good Monty Python reference.
No idea but i've been looking on amazon, still very expensive for essentially a light dimmer in a box that is practically useless for electronics i'll tell ya
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What we really need is a modification which cuts the power off after the wand has not been removed for 30 or 60 minutes.
As others have reported, the price of the fx-951 on aliexpress seems incredibly cheap so I tried one! New it must be a fake, but I'd been impressed with another chinese station (Bakon bk2000 from shenzhen ) and thought even though its a clone it might still be ok. when it arrived it had a sticker "110 VAC input" . Also said "Made in S'Pore). I'm in the uk with 240V so I haven't tried powering up yet. Supplier assures me its just the label thats wrong! Aliexpress offers in their conditions of sale, a douible refund on any item that arrives counterfeit. Anyone tried holding them to that on the fake Hakko's?