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They all do the same thing, I'm not burning wood with my hakko here. All I'm wanting to get across is that a modern soldering station such as a hakko 936 can in every way solder better than a 1960's hunk of plastic with a big transformer in it.

Haha you're right! No should I be calling it something different? I'm referring to my hakko 936. Steve please show me these capacitors you keep referring to, they must not be the electrolyics I'm used to working with.

Iphone 5 There is nothing there I want to even think about touching with an iron :p. I mainly work with through hole components and electrolytic capacitors are the most common things that need replacing. I can solder 12awg wire without issue as well. Have any of you guys used a decent...

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Haha I just used hakko as my example because that is what I have the most experience with and it's affordable. I have no doubt that there is much better to be had out there. :thumbup:

You cannot work on an iPhone with a soldering iron, it takes crazy expensive hot air re-flow stations to work on those PCBs, usually that stuff isn't even worth working on.

I don't understand what you mean by different purposes. I agree, it's more complex and uses a ceramic heater that is fragile. But what I'm getting at is while the Weller gun is a tank it isn't as good as a temperature controlled station for soldering electronics.

A 50 year old soldering gun cannot hold a candle to a proper soldering iron when it comes to working with delicate SMD components.

I have to disagree...