I had that same problem when using the china tips, ever since switching to the hakko tips I can solder mcpcb’s mounted to a light with good thermal paste without an issue as long as the substrate has enough thermal resistance. The clemance mcpcb’s are hard to solder no matter what for example.
I used to think my station was the issue until I also switched to hakko tips, now even my cheap $15 soldering iron works great and I find myself using it a fair amount, I keep a large tip on 1 of them and a small on the other.
Same here TA, this has to be one of the first things I discovered after joining, I have a Yihua 936 and started with some sort of knock off tips and then Richard RMM and I were chatting and I explained some issues I was having so actually it was RMM that clued me offhandedly by telling me he never has the problems I was referring to and I asked what tips he preferred and it’s the T18 series and so my thinking is if it’s good for RMM then it will be excellent for me and it’s stayed that way.
I found that the Shape B became my do everything and anything tip, and just as a thought this tip is probably the best for anyone new to soldering, I think you can hardly fail with this tip, worth looking at even if your an old hand at soldering but haven’t tried these. Shape B and examples
Sorry, my mistake. On my device the Determine order button wasn’t onscreen until I scrolled. There wasn’t any Enter button near the coupon field so I hit Enter and it moved to a page with only the checkout option.
I got the D24 with the Hakko station and I liked it alot, still do… then I tried the S3,D32 and D16, but then I found this kit… with the S3 D32 D24….Amazon.com Pretty good deal and you get the 2 Conical tips for like free…
Can anyone comment on the diameter of their heating element? I want to make sure my element is not undersized. I got about 3.86mm on mine and 4.21mm on the tip ID. That’s a 0.35mm gap.
Hmmm, I’ll look into it, but I’ve got this (Soldering Station 2005 - Magnum Products) together with Magnum points and I always thought it was a quality product. Is it not?
To be honest I have never heard of that brand so I can’t say one way or the other.
There are naturally other brands that have high quality irons and tips as well, the reason we talk about the hakko tips is that almost all the china knock off soldering stations are based on the hakko setup and thus can use the hakko tips.
I don’t know if it’s been mentioned yet but I was just messaging with a fella at Lumintop about the delay and some other confusion over the GT70 conversion kits, they are so great at Lumintop and great English to boot, and through this conversation I was told that the BLF GT70 is now available in NW, BLF GT70
I was also told that the conversion kit won’t actually be ready to ship until Sept. 25th, so if you’ve paid for the kit and noticed that all you’ve got is your PayPal receipt this is the reason why, I was told they are behind and will send notices via Leo with receipts by that date and start shipping.
So I went to look and confirm the GT70 NW is there and sure enough there she is, so here goes another $220 and hopefully no more glitches, and this will now make a ridiculous total of 6 GT’s and only one GT Mini, I’m trying to cut back ?
I’m sure not holding my breath that a GT70 in NW will ship this week or even the next as it seems Lumintop likes to put things up for sale that aren’t always quit ready for shipping.
This is most likely already old news since I seem to always be the last person to know of such things but I thought just in case I’d mention it again, … ha ha