Babies first soldering iron

what was your first soldering iron?

i burned my hand with a soldering iron the first time i used it

Some generic 20 dollar shit idk

hakko 888d

On to hakko 951 now

you sound pretty retarded

The basic radioshack soldering iron. I use to work there, so I got it for free.

this
then I got a heavier duty one which was too large for my needs
then I got another $15 one that took forever to heat up
then I got a ts100

My dads ancient Weller pencil. Plugged directly into the wall, had no variable temperature, and hte handle would heat up.

Now I have a Hakko

Same, I still use it though. Pretty good kit.

Ungar 9900. it lasted 25 years. I'd still be using it if parts were available.
Now I use a Hakko FX-888D.

Unironically? A cheap beaten up box cutter heated by a candle. My first and only, I've gotten to the point where I know the timing to get a good joint with 60/40 rosin core.

>babies first soldering iron
>expensive toy one hundred in the picture
how apt

I use my sounding rod heated with a blowtorch

>radioshit $12 (10 years old still works)
>’premium’ radioshit $20 (died after 3 years)
>>weller one with 9v battery(keep one in the house for quick jobs)
>hakko fx 888d

My nigger
What tips are you using?

Cheap Radioshack iron, still works to this day

I have a cheap radioshack one that came with a set. I don't do much soldering, it works fine.

I don't see how having a fancy one would make using it any easier. It's a metal stick that gets hot.

Whatever the fuck model my Dad had.

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A chink one I bought for around 4 dollarydoos.
Now I have a hakko but I still use the chink one mostly

I don't know what I'd do with soldering

Soldering is like programmong for me..I have no use for it

Some really old unbraded one that I inherited from my (now deceased) grandfather.

This.
Still using one. Would like something better but don't really need it.

Elenco ZD931

Dad has one of these babies, except bigger and more soviet.
It was my first, and I think he still uses it.

None, Nothing I do is important enough to to permanent.

This

Ersa rds80 just got it some weeks ago by some really really nice guy I met online

I burned my tummy with a 100W soldering iron once.

'sup fellow Polak, mine was yellow, probably color coded for different wattage but I have no idea. It works to this day, it's pretty shit, but I'm also shit at soldering so it evens out.

poorfag here
At first had an old soviet-made ЭПCH 65W which was okay for wire soldering but horrible for anything else.
Then i get a chink 12$ T12-9501 kit with ILS and BC2 tips. Which works pretty well.
Now i'm going to get a 13$ chink heat gun handle and made a simple diy controller for it.

I want to buy an i-Con 1 even though it is a complete overkill for my needs and a waste of money too. Talk me out of it.

Some no-name fixed temperature hand-me-down from my dad. I don't even know where it went, it just wasn't there one day, so now I have a Weller WLC100.

Some east German 140w monstrosity with bakelite handle.

I don't own a soldering iron

buy it anyway

I still use cheap stations for anything but the most critical work.

you find that the size of it is totally fine for everything when you compare it to the rest of the electrical hardware of the time

15w Dick Smith soldering iron, with a chunky AF tip and some .8mm 60/40.

First one which was mine was a Weller WD-1 because work paid for it.
I started on a magnastat Weller WTCP though, which again was from work.

Pics please, i'm very interested.

it didn't have a brand name anywhere on it and it was my dads old one, since broken but I still have it, I'm a sentimental guy

Some Weller I've gotten from my dad. It has a temp dial at least

Sup Forums is full of kids who cant repair anything that doesnt involve swapping out a part, most people here can't solder

just the standard tip and a fine tip. might order a broader tip later on and an extra handle just in case :-)

A fork shoved into a wall socket

Does the hakko 888d have tips for SMD soldering?

Buy a temp controlled station.
I know they cost money, but having the right tool makes such an insane difference with soldering.
You are going to get frustrated and burn your hand and get countless cold solder joints with the shitty pencil irons.

"HOOIIII AND WELCOME TO THE E-E-V-BLOG"

the fisher price solder

I did this with a $4 soldering iron from Wal-Mart.

This was done after I finally got a good station (GOOT RX-701AS).

Some chink iron that cost 10€ and came with a "multimeter", the only thing the meter is good for is measuring continuity

drag solder + flux or is that a micro pen?

I manually routed that entire thing and silver plated the copper after I etched it. There are some traces that have 62/36/2(silver) dragged across them. After all that work I never built a proper I/V output stage for it. It's still sitting here in a box somewhere. I'm a recovering audiophile now anyway. It's a depressing rabbit hole of a hobby.

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>that round plug with no hole for ground prong from the socket
I'm so fucking glad those things are gone now.

>okay for wire soldering but horrible for anything else.
I bet it was great for smoking weed. That's what I used these babies for, before vaping became mainstream.

And then it exploded, 3 fingers went missing and the family dog got sick.

enjoy your false contacts and horrible loops

Its not like small burn wounds are that uncommon when soldering