18 Mar
2003
18 Mar
'03
9:50 a.m.
Rumor has it that Ethan Dicks may have mentioned these words:
[snip]
I used Metcals at Lucent. Verrrry Nice. I would love
to find one with
a box of SMT tips for less than a housepayment.
Can they be had with a full set of SMT tips *for* a house payment? If so,
I'd consider it...Some of those tips are $60+ USD each... doesn't take many
where just the tips would be a house payment for me, and the cheapest unit
I found that looked half-way decent (with 1 tip) was around $400USD. I
can't afford four digits... :-(
At dalbani.com (out of Miami, FL, USA) they have *low-cost* stuff... some
of it is complete and utter crap, but sometimes it's a decent deal for
hobbyist stuff. For the store (we don't do a lot of soldering nowadays) we
got a digital temperature-controlled soldering iron with 6 tips for under
$90. It actually works pretty well, for the occasional solder-job... If I
soldered on a daily basis, I'd get *quality* but for the once-a-month deal...
I don't remember if they had SMT stuff, tho.
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
zmerch(a)30below.com
What do you do when Life gives you lemons,
and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????