Hi all,

if this is not the correct group for this type of questions, please be
gentle
and point me in the right direction.

I have just won an eBay auction for a Weller AG 700 hot air soldering
station.
It isn't as described in the auction, apart from that it is incomplete, and
moreover I think it
might be defective. Could anybody perhaps help me with the following
questions?

1) I am looking for a user manual for this station. Or maybe someone can
answer
this question off the top of his head. With all the Weller stations I have
used in my
life, the LED that signalizes the correct temperature either blinked
regularely while
the station was heating up and was permanently on when the correct
temperature
was reached. Some, I think, did it vice versa, i. e. permanently on when the
station
was heating up and blinking regularely when the temperature was reached.

The station I've bought does nothing of this. It flickers quite irregularely
regardless
of how long the station has been powered on. Is this normal with this type
of station?

2) The hot air pencil that came with this station seems to be incomplete. I
can't
describe it the way I'd like to since I am not a native speaker, but I will
try.

The tubular thingie with the round hole at the tip is loose. I can simply
pull it
off, in which case I can see the heating element. Said tubular thingie has a
couple
of tiny holes at the end where the plastic handle begins. Most of the hot
air
passes through these holes, so what makes it to the tip isn't sufficient to
even melt
tin in the 500 degrees setting.

There is a thread at the plastic handle end, so I think there must be a part
missing that a) fastens the tubular thingie and b) caps the holes so that
all of
the air reaches the tip. Unfortunately, there is no type number on this hot
air
pencil. It is 19cm long, the blue plastic handle is 11.8cm long. Does
anybody
know the type of this pencil or where I can find a closeup image (or, even
better, the part that is probably missing?

A picture of this soldering station can be found here (not the seller I
bought
from): http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...tem=5988886270,
but the pictures aren't good enough to get an idea about the part or parts
that are
missing on mine.

Thank you very much in advance

Frank