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| RayRay:
--- Quote from: Autronic on August 07, 2024, 12:05:27 pm ---To Rayray, yes, I am not sure why I would bother to replace a USD 0.60 SCR to keep my high quality Australian made soldering station serviceable when the Chinese are purveyors of such fine soldering equipment. --- End quote --- That's just nonsensical. Almost all electronics (not to mention electronic components) are made in China nowadays (and have been for well over a decade!) A product made in China isn't synonymous with poor quality, and it's on a case to case basis. I bet your Multimeter, Phone, Fridge, Oven, Microwave, Router, TV, Washing Machine, Air Conditioner, Electric Kettle, Computer Monitor and so much more are all MIC! But regardless, A C245/T12 station would still outweigh your existing soldering station by a mile and would have many advantages, but it's of course your right to keep on using such an outdated station if you insist. Have a nice day. |
| Autronic:
Indeed, well, you would certainly lose the bet on the multimeter. My Fluke 75 III is made in the USA by the good ol' boys. I am not opposed to Chinese equipment, to my left is a Standig 898D solder station and heat gun which is an excellent tool for it's purpose. As far as outweigh is concerned, are the C245 or T12 transformer based or switch mode? It is not my intent to engage you in polemics, rather to point out in my view high quality Australian made equipment should be repaired and retained serviceable where economically viable. Perhaps to misquote the latin cogito ergo sum, fixus ergo sum? Thanks for your input Ray. |
| ebastler:
--- Quote from: RayRay on August 07, 2024, 12:26:50 pm ---[...] it's of course your right to keep on using such an outdated station if you insist. Have a nice day. --- End quote --- Yeah, those modern soldering stations produce much more modern heat! Measured in Joule rather than calories, ya know. I'm not even sure whether modern solder will melt when confronted with that outdated heat from the OP's station... ::) |
| wasyoungonce:
I have two dual Royals, RE800/RE900 (the 800 is dual and vac/pressure, the 900 dual vac/pressure and includes resistance soldering and thermal wire strippers with the “biggest arsed” transformer that is huge, you could weld with….not quite!) and about 5 single stations and too many irons and tips to mention. The single stations transformers are 80VA the Tips excellent and still keep up today with their bigger irons. I also have smaller irons for fine stuff and around 130 new tips. The vac pump unequaled by any other de-solder! Any. Their proper wedge tips are still the best thru hole tips ever. Way too many are spade, not wedge! To contact pads and THT leg at both same with large contact area I am Changing to T12 (because I need more heat on a 6 layer board I do with POWER SO16 a hard chip for any tech, consider the thru hole vias and GND plane all the way thru) so will move on my Royel, (I may keep one or two) but am will miss them and still don’t know what to do about a de-solder station. Nothing sucks like a Royel…..(the Brit’s will love that) or use pressure to blow out holes. They were a great company but basically Hakko improved upon the “Royel” design and Royel failed to keep up. In the end they were sold and their black stations used cheap poorly made Hakko knock offs and was rubbish. They folded. A sad end to Techtron |
| Autronic:
Yeah, what would I know about Royel? They were used by Her Majesty's Royal Australian Air Force for the high reliability hand soldering course (To NASA standard maybe?) in the 80's.Must be rubbish.Please talk to me before you move your Royel's on WYO, I am sure an elegant sufficiency of funds could be provided in exchange. |
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