Soldering gun tip melted, WTF
03-16-2012, 05:59 PM
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Because:
1: Nice tools make the work more pleasant (applies to all tools),
2: Good irons have good tips, and good tips both flow better and last forever,
3: Station-based irons usually have much faster thermal recovery than unregulated pencil irons, and
4: You like the cоck.
The Metcal MX-500s we have here in the lab make a Weller WES51 look like a cheap, Chinese-made *****.
At home, however, I use a Weller. I have literally been using the same tip for over a decade at this point.
This image, by artist Paul Cadden, was drawn with a graphite pencil:
Nobody is saying that you can't do quality work with cheap tools.
But I am saying that nice tools will last much longer and will generally make life more pleasant.
1: Nice tools make the work more pleasant (applies to all tools),
2: Good irons have good tips, and good tips both flow better and last forever,
3: Station-based irons usually have much faster thermal recovery than unregulated pencil irons, and
4: You like the cоck.
At home, however, I use a Weller. I have literally been using the same tip for over a decade at this point.
This was done with a 20/40 watt radioshack iron (not by me):
(cool picture
(cool picture
Nobody is saying that you can't do quality work with cheap tools.
But I am saying that nice tools will last much longer and will generally make life more pleasant.
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03-16-2012, 08:55 PM
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I wasnt saying "Why would you buy the Weller soldering station?". I was saying, "Why would you buy that harbor freight gun monstrosity?", then continued to say that most people dont need a soldering station.
You cant argue with that soldering in the photograph.
That cheap iron available right now at radioshack is more than enough for what almost anybody working on a car does.
40 watts for heating it up and working with big wires, and 20 watts for working on through hole PCBs.
I have said radioshack iron, A friend gave it to me when he got a legitimate soldering station. Before I got it he used it to modify 100+ Honda ECUs in addition to countless other projects. He had it for years. Now I have it, and although Ill probably end up getting a Hakko 888 station soon, I suspect this iron will still be around for a long time.
Having a $100 soldering station to soldering 16 gauge wires together occasionally is very clubroadster
You cant argue with that soldering in the photograph.
That cheap iron available right now at radioshack is more than enough for what almost anybody working on a car does.
40 watts for heating it up and working with big wires, and 20 watts for working on through hole PCBs.
I have said radioshack iron, A friend gave it to me when he got a legitimate soldering station. Before I got it he used it to modify 100+ Honda ECUs in addition to countless other projects. He had it for years. Now I have it, and although Ill probably end up getting a Hakko 888 station soon, I suspect this iron will still be around for a long time.
Having a $100 soldering station to soldering 16 gauge wires together occasionally is very clubroadster
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