Soldering station thoughts and guidelines

[stj]

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ERSA also make micro-soldering gear.
but the price is not micro!

[Dannyx]

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check the tips for the hakko micro-pencil

Indeed, that's what Louis Rossmann uses, at least in the early days, so I tried finding one too, but I cannot seem to find anything Hakko here unfortunately. There are only a couple of listings and they're pretty expensive, plus I'm not entirely sure I'd be getting a genuine Hakko anyway, as Louis illustrated in one of his vids.

[stj]

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check the tips for the hakko micro-pencil

[Dannyx]

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I just measured the edge of my smallest T12 tip and it's 2mm, so even the smallest knife tip from that original JBC lineup doesn't cut it (pun intended). They cost a fortune for a friggin' iron tip too, so it's still on hold for the moment...

The C115 catalogue DOES have a 1mm tip which is tempting, though I cannot find it locally anywhere...

[Dannyx]

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You're bolting a JBC handle to a T12-clone station?

No - the T12 handle came with the "Ksger" base station from Aliexpress.

The C210 ones I linked to on Aliexpress are the JBC clones, I reckon. I'd get a complete station instead of trying to adapt the C210 handle to my existing "Ksger" base. I was attracted to the apparently smaller form factor of the tips, though like I said, I'm not entirely convinced they ARE indeed any finer than the T12 ones...

[redwire]

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JBC C210 cartridges there are two knife blades 2.5, 3.4mm.
How about the chisel (screwdriver) tips? The spoon/hoof is useful too.

The T245 (C245) cartridges might be another (medium sized) option, better selection.

You're bolting a JBC handle to a T12-clone station? There's the jumper and recently debate about if this even works because the JBC thermocouple has double the output- which saturates the op-amp.

[Dannyx]

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Just in case someone is still watching this thread about shop equipment, I recently came across this type of soldering iron. I've been looking for quite some time now for an iron that takes tips small enough for micro-soldering, but either the prices are way up there, or the tips are not the right shape to begin with.

I'm a big fan of the knife tip and I do have a station which takes T12 tips, one of which is the knife type and is satisfactory for most jobs, but sometimes I'd like something even finer, so I was curious if anyone had any suggestions or had a go with these C210 tips. The smallest knife tip I could find is still 3mm in width, which doesn't seem any smaller than the one I already got in T12 form, at least by eye, as I haven't measured it yet to do a proper comparison....

[dicky96]

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It is mate. There are some good people over there

[Dannyx]

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That's good to know. Also, I'm surprised to see how popular the HUD discussion is over on EEV

[dicky96]

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Hi guys

I got a reply from the seller on aliexpress AMSZoom where I bought my microscope.

I asked him how much I would have to pay for the WF 10x/20 high eyepoint eyepieces.

He has kindly offered to send me the high eyepoint eyepieces for free when I order the 0.5x adapter I need to make the camera show the same magnification on screen as I see through the microscope. That saves me paying around €30

This is despite the fact I never asked for high eyepoint eyepieces when I ordered - in fact at the time I did not know they existed.

From this experience I would really like to recommend anyone who is thinking of buying a microscope to consider buying from this seller AMSZoom on Aliexpress. His after sales service has been excellent, beyond what I would have expected.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000...f-428fdd7d97a7

[diif]

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"Across" you mean like the area of the "stage" you are able to see ? We're not talking about working distance here (the distance from the lens to the stage)...

Yes, from one side of the stage to the other. I have a working distance of around 140mm at the 1x setting and about 120mm at the 2x setting.

[Dannyx]

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"Across" you mean like the area of the "stage" you are able to see ? We're not talking about working distance here (the distance from the lens to the stage)...

[diif]

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Isn't 1x like a magnifying glass ? Just asking...

No idea, it has w5x eyepieces making 5x I think.
On the lowest setting I see 34mm across and on the highest magnification I see 13mm.

[Dannyx]

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Yes, I think 10x is still too much. My microscope is a 1x and 2x with w5x eyepieces. It stays on the 1x position 95% of it's time.

Isn't 1x like a magnifying glass ? Just asking...

[diif]

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Yes, I think 10x is still too much. My microscope is a 1x and 2x with w5x eyepieces. It stays on the 1x position 95% of it's time.

[Dannyx]

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Yeah, if 20x is indeed the lowest it can go down to, it's useless...too high.

THIS ONE goes down to 10x, but it's still too much I'd say and it's also more expensive, therefore defeating the purpose, since the stand is not cheap either, so I'd end up right back where I started...

[dicky96]

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Yes it came up in English

I agree with diif. The magnification range of that microscope looks all wrong

[Dannyx]

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BTW: did the site configure itself in English at your end when you accessed it ? That's how I set it, but it could snap back to RO. Maybe they're referring to the MAXIMUM it can go up to...haven't really looked over it in detail

[diif]

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Taking a few steps back, I wonder if THIS is the same scope as the others of this kind floating around, just mounted on a traditional stand with a bottom-illuminated stage for slides. It's fairly cheap and I can source it locally, so if the head turns out to be the same, I could just get the boom stand....

Check the magnification, 20x 40x seems high.

[Dannyx]

Re: Soldering station thoughts and guidelines

Taking a few steps back, I wonder if THIS is the same scope as the others of this kind floating around, just mounted on a traditional stand with a bottom-illuminated stage for slides. It's fairly cheap and I can source it locally, so if the head turns out to be the same, I could just get the boom stand....