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I do projects with: ionising radiation, criticality, diy explosives, long range drones, rockets
Nov 21 8 tweets 4 min read
Recommendations:

Soldering Iron:

You want to buy into the JBC ecosystem.
These are awesome from 0 degrees to work temp in 2 seconds and they hold temp perfectly
The nice part about JBC tho is their Tip System
The heating element is in the Tip not in the Iron itself so the handle is just the powersource.

This means whenever you buy a new tip you get a fresh heating element as well so basically a new whole soldering iron.
This means tips cost 30 bucks not 5 but if you treat it well you will have to exchange it like once every 2 or 3 years and you get A WAAAAY better time soldering.
These irons are not mean for consumers they have industry pricing so usually >700$ and have IoT bullshit except one analog one.
The analog one is only 300 bucks except you don't get useless anti hacking features that only matter for industry but you get full access to the JBC ecosystem.

You want this one
It has a different name depending on where you at
In Europe it's called JCB BT-2BWA10
In Britain it seems to be called:
BT-2BQA
Just get whatever is fine for your country outlet voltage
You want to get there handles:
T245 medium sized (you won't ever need bigger for electronics (I solder massive stuff and its fine)

T210-A (fine one for surface mounted soldering)Image
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Tips and Handles
Get the T210-A handle and the
T245-A each is 80 bucks but you get one of these already with your station so you just have to buy the other one

so in the end you should have these 2

They fit different size tips
C210 tips and C245

What you want to get for Tips:

C210002 (it's bent and meant to perfect to solder super thin wires without damaging the sleeve)

& the chisel tip that comes with your T245 handle

chisels are waaay better usually as you get way more surface area but here for once pays the conical bent tip off for the small stuffImage
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