Hi All,
I am looking to set up a workbench for basic electronics work. Will mostly be doing audio & instrument cables, guitar electronics, the occasional old-school kit (ie nothing with tiny SMD components). The last time I picked up an iron was 20 years ago so I'm a bit rusty on the details.
I have a 25w iron that simply isn't going to be hot enough to do guitar electronics, so am looking at either an 80w Nicholson iron, although the preference is the Dremel Versatip butane-fuelled cordless iron. Bank in the day, I had a butane iron purchased from Dick Smith (when it used to be an electronics store!), and it was crap. Does anyone have experience with the Dremel? For various reasons, a cordless iron will have several benefits to me, due to it's portability. I can also use it as a blowtorch for heat shrinking and pyrography.
My concern is that I do not know what the performance is against equivalent wattage of a corded tool. Some specs claim 550ºc as a tip temperature - but I don't know what, for example, an 80w would read at.
Also, it appears to only come with a pointed tip. In the past I have always found that a chiselled tip to be the standard. Can I get some advice on whether a pointed tip is suitable for more robust electronics work, as I described in my first paragraph? It seems that Dremel do not make a chiselled tip for their tool
Here's a link to the Dremel:
http://ift.tt/12NFO9T
I am looking to set up a workbench for basic electronics work. Will mostly be doing audio & instrument cables, guitar electronics, the occasional old-school kit (ie nothing with tiny SMD components). The last time I picked up an iron was 20 years ago so I'm a bit rusty on the details.
I have a 25w iron that simply isn't going to be hot enough to do guitar electronics, so am looking at either an 80w Nicholson iron, although the preference is the Dremel Versatip butane-fuelled cordless iron. Bank in the day, I had a butane iron purchased from Dick Smith (when it used to be an electronics store!), and it was crap. Does anyone have experience with the Dremel? For various reasons, a cordless iron will have several benefits to me, due to it's portability. I can also use it as a blowtorch for heat shrinking and pyrography.
My concern is that I do not know what the performance is against equivalent wattage of a corded tool. Some specs claim 550ºc as a tip temperature - but I don't know what, for example, an 80w would read at.
Also, it appears to only come with a pointed tip. In the past I have always found that a chiselled tip to be the standard. Can I get some advice on whether a pointed tip is suitable for more robust electronics work, as I described in my first paragraph? It seems that Dremel do not make a chiselled tip for their tool
Here's a link to the Dremel:
http://ift.tt/12NFO9T
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