Soldering Stations

[nn5g]

I am getting ready to put together my first K-2. I
have seen various postings  on soldering stations. As
I am only recently getting back into the hobby, I
would appreciate a recommendation on a decent
soldering station to restart my  kit building, but
specifically for the K2.

The AUTO-TEMP 379 professional quality soldering
station seems to be a good product for the cost and I
have seen it mentioned here (I have only been on this
reflector for a week)...73 de Paul, NN5G

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[Bob Nielsen]

On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 08:40:46PM -0700, Paul Kelly wrote:

> I am getting ready to put together my first K-2. I
> have seen various postings  on soldering stations. As
> I am only recently getting back into the hobby, I
> would appreciate a recommendation on a decent
> soldering station to restart my  kit building, but
> specifically for the K2.
>
> The AUTO-TEMP 379 professional quality soldering
> station seems to be a good product for the cost and I
> have seen it mentioned here (I have only been on this
> reflector for a week)...73 de Paul, NN5G
>

I currently use a Weller WES-50 (now replaced by the WES-51), but
previously had a Xytronic soldering station which looked identical to
the AUTO-TEMP 379 (I think it was a different model which was later
discontinued).  It worked fine for kit building and was priced right.

I definitely recommend the use of a temperature-controlled soldering
station such as this.

73,
Bob, N7XY

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[Ron D'Eau Claire-2]

The popular ones I see mentioned regularly are the various Weller's and the
Hakko's. I have a Hakko 936 and like the simple 'turn the knob' temperature
control. See:
http://tinyurl.com/56r3n

Ron AC7AC

-----Original Message-----
I am getting ready to put together my first K-2. I
have seen various postings  on soldering stations. As
I am only recently getting back into the hobby, I
would appreciate a recommendation on a decent
soldering station to restart my  kit building, but
specifically for the K2.

The AUTO-TEMP 379 professional quality soldering
station seems to be a good product for the cost and I
have seen it mentioned here (I have only been on this
reflector for a week)...73 de Paul, NN5G


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