When it comes to soldering, I usually recommend Hakko or Pace irons; I have a Hakko 936 and it's a great "all-rounder". The FX-888D seems to be their recommended replacement for the 936 so I guess I will endorse that, if they are making the new models as well as they built the old ones (although IMO they look a little silly now) ... I paid less than $100 USD for my 936 brand new and I think I just got it from some random eBay vendor, maybe you can find them there, even in the Commonwealth?
Best, Sean On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Maciej W. Rozycki <ma...@linux-mips.org> wrote: > On Sat, 1 Aug 2015, Robert Jarratt wrote: > > > > > Thanks for the suggestion, but Hakko appears not to be available in > the UK. > > > On ebay I can find US sellers and Chinese sellers. I suspect the > Chinese ones are > > > imitations, so I would prefer to avoid those. > > > > > > Sorry - missed the UK part :) > > > > > > Did some googling, and it looks like Hakko makes a 230v version. I > found a UK > > > retailer that lists it: > > > > > > http://www.dancap.co.uk/soldering/fx888D.html > > > <http://www.dancap.co.uk/soldering/fx888D.html> > > > > > > > > > Thanks. I did do a search, but obviously not that well :-( > > Proto-PIC have them too: > > http://proto-pic.co.uk/hakko-fx-888d-silver-digital-solder-station/ > http://proto-pic.co.uk/hakko-fx888d-blue-yellow-digital-solder-station/ > > Mind that £99 is the net price. :( > > Maciej >
