I use a couple of Therm-o-Trac irons made by Hexacon. They are very good for surface mount work. Metcals are good & expensive as you pointed out but they produce short range RFI. Hardy N7RT
----- Original Message ----- From: "w2bvh" <[email protected]> To: "Johnny Siu" <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 7:56 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Re： soldering station > I use a Metcal at work & think its the best I've ever seen. > Its just too expensive for mere mortals (they cost more used than many > stations do brand new. :-) > > --Lenny W2BVH > > On 11/13/2010 9:24 PM, Johnny Siu wrote: >> Hello Gentleman, >> >> I am using a 'Chinese version' of Hakko 936 which is 1/4 of the price. >> The >> trick is to replace the original soldering tip with the same from >> 'Goot' - made >> in Japan. >>  cheers, >> >> >> Johnny VR2XMC >> >> >> >> ----- 郵件原件 ---- >> 寄件人﹕ Don Wilhelm<[email protected]> >> 收件人﹕ [email protected] >> 副本(CC) [email protected] >> 傳é€æ—¥æœŸï¹• 2010/11/14 (æ—¥) 10:18:21 AM >> 主題： Re: [Elecraft] soldering station >> >>  Bob, >> >> The Hakko 936 gets very high marks with most of those who have one, but >> there are others that are also good. >> >> 73, >> Don W3FPR >> >> On 11/13/2010 8:48 PM, [email protected] wrote: >>> Gang >>> >>> last week there was a thread on soldering stations,, before I ordered >>> one >>> I lost a week of e mail... I dont want to start the thread again but >>> could >>> someone off list give me a head up on the recommended station >>> I believe it had an isolated tip etc >>> >>> Bob K3DJC >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
