Bundle Includes Soldering Station and CHP170 Cutter

really easy to set up, quick to come to temperature, easy to read temperature read out, long enough cable that you never feel like youre being restricted.

I always feared soldering and did poor soldering. I had some expensive electronic projects hanging around that would be too cost prohibitive to pay someone for repairs so, I did my research and read reviews and bought this soldering iron along with the right solder and practiced technique and amazed my self. This iron is high quality. I always used cheap irons. This certainly a case of you get what you pay for. Comes with a hakko chisel tip great to start with general repairs. Highly recommend to anyone.

The best soildering gun on market

Before buying the Hakko, I always soldered with cheapo soldering irons from that shack that used to sell radio parts. Id watch YouTube tutorials, confused as to how those internet people were so good at getting solder to melt. Well as it turns out, if you spend a little money on a nice iron, soldering electronic components is exponentially easier. I wish Id bought something like this a decade ago, it would have saved me a lot of time and frustration.

Going from a cheep plug directly in the wall $15 radio-shack iron to this guy is like night and day. The tip heats up in about 30 seconds vs the 10 min for my old one and the temperature control, iron/sponge holder, and included dikes are also really nice. Great deal for what you get and the quality. I can tell that this thing will last me a long time. Only slight complaint is that there does not seem to be an auto off after a certain period of time. I feel that this should probably be included for safety but as long as you remember to shut it off after you are done you are good.

Really good soldering station with a very clunky user interface. The clippers this bundle comes with are great as well.

Great Buy

Great station for the money. I havent put a lot of time on it yet, but it heats up REALLY quickly, holds temp well, and is comfortable to use. Programming is pretty easy if you read through the instructions.

A very nice soldering iron. Seems to have good heat recovery for its perceived size.

This is a superb soldering station product. I was using the weller with temperature select tips which worked great. This is much better. Its more powerful (70 watts) than the weller and comes up to temperature much faster. And no changing tips to change temperature: just follow the instructions to punch in a new temp and vualá! Best station Ive used... Now theres one thing missing from the instruction manuals and nowhere to be found (without extensive digging on the internet). And that is how to do a factory reset... As I have discovered; It can be easy to accidentally mess up the temperature offset. I got into a certain menu mode and moved the numbers up and down thinking I was changing the temperature. When I researched in the manual I found that I was actually adjusting the temperature offset!! with no way to know how far the offset was - I was stuck - yuk! How do I reset? No answer except to use a ~$200 or ~$1000 hakko thermometer to recalibrate hmm. very interesting. It seems they want to sell some extra thermometers... Hakko should be ashamed. I did the secret factory reset and mine tested spot on with a borrowed high temp thermometer. Heres the secret factory reset procedure -- Use the switch on the right side to turn the unit off. (There are two buttons on the front: the [UP] Button and the [ENTER] button.) Hold the [UP] button down and at the same time press and hold the [ENTER] button. Then turn the unit ON while holding those buttons down. Keep the buttons down (about 1 second) until an A flashes on the screen. Then release both buttons and press the [UP] button one time. There should now be a flashing U on the screen - Now press the [ENTER] button once and thats it. The memory will be cleared and reset to factory settings and the unit will now count up heating to the default 750°F -- Who wants to be told they unexpectedly have to buy a thermometer that costs twice as much as the soldering station!? Really? Come on Hakko! You can do better than that! Other than this annoyance this unit is a great and excellent value.