3 Aug
2015
3 Aug
'15
8:35 a.m.
When it comes to soldering, I usually recommend Hakko or Pace irons; I have
a Hakko 936 and it's a great "all-rounder". The FX-888D seems to be their
recommended replacement for the 936 so I guess I will endorse that, if they
are making the new models as well as they built the old ones (although IMO
they look a little silly now) ... I paid less than $100 USD for my 936
brand new and I think I just got it from some random eBay vendor, maybe you
can find them there, even in the Commonwealth?
Best,
Sean
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Maciej W. Rozycki <macro at linux-mips.org>
wrote:
On Sat, 1 Aug 2015, Robert Jarratt wrote:
Proto-PIC have them too:
http://proto-pic.co.uk/hakko-fx-888d-silver-digital-solder-station/
http://proto-pic.co.uk/hakko-fx888d-blue-yellow-digital-solder-station/
Mind that ?99 is the net price. :(
Maciej
> > 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 :-(