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Felino · **Posted:** Sat Jun 16, 2007 9:32 pm

As i said in another topic, i love gas solder irons, great for on the go, my mini one is now gone so... i need a new one, can anyone recommend a good one for me?

EDIT: Ouch this server is slow today.

CronoTriggerfan · **Posted:** Sun Jun 17, 2007 11:49 am

G-force wrote:

Weller WES51 adjustable temp iron. Best birthday gift ever! Let the jealousy commence.

Now you know how I can keep from effin up those Super Joy 3's so easily. If it's a thin trace, I set it low heat, and if its a large trace, higher heat. Oh, and I use LOTS of flux. Makes any job easy as pie.

*Drools* Can I... touch it?

That thing kicks ass, now I know what my next $100 is going towards!

CTFan

dragon · **Joined:** Wed Dec 20, 2006 2:45 pm **Posts:** 329

I have a gas soldering iron.

dudex77 · **Posted:** Sun Jun 17, 2007 2:26 pm

I bet mine is older than all of yours at 30 years!

Triton · **Posted:** Sun Jun 17, 2007 3:20 pm

i want a weller pyropen like gannon has! but they cost like 60$

blackbox_dev · **Posted:** Sun Jun 17, 2007 3:24 pm

Me and G-Force have the best soldering iron here. Yay.

(Their really the same, yours just has a fancy brand name on it. Then again, I think mine was $125 CAD)

CronoTriggerfan · **Posted:** Sun Jun 17, 2007 3:27 pm

iam7805 wrote:

Me and G-Force have the best soldering iron here. Yay.

Not anymore! *swipes iam's iron when he's not looking* :lol:

A little butane iron does sound like a good idea, like Felino said. I used one once in my hardware repair class at school, and I liked it a lot. Some sets that look pretty nice are going on ebay for just over $30 shipped, though I've never heard of some of the brands.

CTFan

blackbox_dev · **Posted:** Sun Jun 17, 2007 3:30 pm

CronoTriggerfan wrote:

Not anymore! *swipes iam's iron when he's not looking*

Kind of hard to, actually. The station part is insanely heavy, which to me is a good thing because it seems like the build quality is really good. On the other hand, the iron is extremely light, and combined with an ultra fine tip, it's really easy to do small pins and traces. I can even do SMD work with it!

-iam

jeroen · **Posted:** Sun Jun 17, 2007 3:33 pm

iam you online? Wanna chat?

I have a really nice weller 15W. it's pencil (I think) so it's really small.

Gump-in-space · **Posted:** Sun Jun 17, 2007 5:51 pm

iam7805 wrote:

Me and G-Force have the best soldering iron here. Yay.

(Their really the same, yours just has a fancy brand name on it. Then again, I think mine was $125 CAD)

Hey, what about me?

blackbox_dev · **Posted:** Sun Jun 17, 2007 6:32 pm

Sorry Gump, you too!

superdeformed · **Joined:** Thu Mar 03, 2005 4:45 pm **Posts:** 298

I've got two irons, but I only really use one of them:

The one on the left is a WLC100, and the one on the right is the long-out-of-production EC2002B. It's a 40-watt digital iron and the precursor to the digital version of the WES51. It's almost 21 years old (still had the inspection sticker on it) and it still works great, although I did have to replace the set/read switch because the contacts wore out.

It still doesn't beat what I get to play with at work though...the 80 watt digital WD1002 and a Metcal MX500

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Nonsense Man · **Posted:** Sun Jun 17, 2007 7:15 pm

Does anyone know what kind of soldering iron Ben uses ??

blackbox_dev · **Posted:** Sun Jun 17, 2007 7:30 pm

Nonsense Man wrote:

Does anyone know what kind of soldering iron Ben uses ??

I asked for a podcast question, he said one of the $15 irons at Radio Shack.

A_Username · **Posted:** Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:35 am

I have a cold heat from radioshack that I don't use, I was trying to ground a wire to a piece of side metal on a case and the tip cracked. Then I have one with one tip that you can't take out. And an old one with many tips that gets super hot super fast.

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