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Offline robertfontaine

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What's the current cheap decent soldering iron to buy?
« 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?
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Offline Leslieann

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Re: What's the current cheap decent soldering iron to buy?
« Reply #1 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.
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Offline xjack312

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Re: What's the current cheap decent soldering iron to buy?
« Reply #2 on: Mon, 31 March 2025, 21:48:24 »
I can recommend the Pinecil v2, just needs a power supply to get up and running
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