This Hobby Is Actually Useful!

[Sean Caron]

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:
>
> > > > 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 :-(
>
>  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
>