28 May
2009
28 May
'09
6:13 p.m.
On May 28, 2009, at 9:01 PM, John Foust wrote:
Depends on the model. For just a soldering station, that's on the
high side of reasonable. For an SMT rework station, it's average to
low.
I didn't
think anything could be better than my trusty Weller,
until I tried the Metcal.
Looks Metcals go for $100-200 on eBay. Is that expensive? As a teen in the late 70s, I once tried to assemble a
mail-order
electronics kit but it wouldn't work... I sent it back to the
company for diagnosis and was stung by the hand-written criticism
that "it looks like it was soldered with a hot brick."
Were you using one of those evil Radio Shack $7.00 specials? ;)
I once knew a guy who soldered kits together by running back and
forth between his kitchen stove and the table with a flat-blade
screwdriver. I don't know if he ever actually completed anything.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL