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Title: What's the current cheap decent soldering iron to buy?
Post by: robertfontaine on Sun, 30 March 2025, 21:11:09

I have a few shoeboxes of pcbs and diodes and such but my iron died a long while back.  What are the cool kid with no money buying these days?

Title: Re: What's the current cheap decent soldering iron to buy?
Post by: Leslieann on Mon, 31 March 2025, 05:17:17

Take a look at this thread.
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=124538.0

Basically Hakko FX-888D is the general consensus.

Title: Re: What's the current cheap decent soldering iron to buy?
Post by: xjack312 on Mon, 31 March 2025, 21:48:24

I can recommend the Pinecil v2, just needs a power supply to get up and running