Thanks for the suggestion, but Hakko appears not to be
available in the UK.
On ebay I can find US sellers and Chinese sellers. I suspect
the Chinese ones are
imitations, so I would prefer to avoid those.
Sorry - missed the UK part :)
Did some googling, and it looks like Hakko makes a 230v version. I found a UK
retailer that lists it:
http://www.dancap.co.uk/soldering/fx888D.html
<http://www.dancap.co.uk/soldering/fx888D.html>
Thanks. I did do a search, but obviously not that well :-(