On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:34:01 +1000, Lionel
wrote:

On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:16:19 -0700, MassiveProng
wrote:

On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 11:53:04 +1000, Lionel Gave
us:

It's all bog standard soldering equipment. People have been using
identical setups for prototyping & rework for decades. And it figures
that TinyDong is the kind of incompetant ****** who'd think that
people can't do reliable work without some overpriced station covered
in bells & whistles.


$139 yeah, dip****... that is overpriced. Sure.

That's more than I paid for my current Weller, & it's working
perfectly 15 years later.

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Don't do much soldering, huh?

$139 in today's dollars is probably less than you paid for your
station in fifteen-year-ago dollars.
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How long has /your/ station lasted so far, dip****?

Bells and whistles? What bells and whistles did I mention?

Also, that "station" is covered in nothing but a temp dial, and a
lamp that shows when the driver is pumping the tip. Get a clue,
asswipe.

Temp controlled solder stations are the standard and the norm, not
your POS "bog standard" They are SUB-standard, at best.

The Weller TCP stations *are* temperature-controlled, dimwit.

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Weller TCP aren't soldering _stations_, they're soldering _irons_.

The stations you're probably referring to are the "WTCPT" and the
"WTCPTD", and the temperature control isn't in the station, it's in
the tips which have Curie temperatures of 600, 700, and 800 F.


Just so you know, I do know a LOT about soldering, and joining
metals.

Sure, that's why you know nothing about the soldering stations that've
been one of the worlds most popular brands for 30 years or more.
Much as I hate to agree with Fields, he's obviously dead right about
your electronics knowledge being anecdotal.

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Sorry, Charlie, that was John LARKIN.
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700 F is now, and has ALWAYS been too hot for circuit boards,
dumbass. Not to mention the components.

And yet I - & tens of thousands of other people - have been creating
perfect joints for decades with those stations, & at that temperature.

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Well, "perfect" is a little strong unless you're talking about,
maybe, plumbing.
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If you're incapable of doing that, it's probably that you hold the
iron to the joint for minutes at a time, or something else equally
incompetant.

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Try to be a little less incompetent with your spelling, OK? After
all, kids are reading this.


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JF