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    Hakko FX-888 Replacement tips Canada

    I have the Hakko FX-888 soldering station which works fantastic. I'm just wondering where to or order replacements tips from in Canada or who will ship to Canada cheaply. The Hakko website shipping is ridiculous when shipping to Canada. I've heard eBay is full of fakes.

    Also just to verify I require the T18 tips correct?

    Any help is greatly appreciated.

    Thanks
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    Re: Hakko FX-888 Replacement tips Canada

    I believe Active Electronics, if you have one, carries them (last time I checked). They aren't cheap (around $10.99 CDN each), but you can be mostly assured they are 100% Hakko genuine.

    http://www.active123.com/Locations-ExtraPages.html

    http://www.active123.com/SOLDERINGDE...-Prodlist.html

    They may also carry Hakko equivalent tips which are cheaper?

    I have purchased "Hakko" tips from ebay and they are likely 100% fake, but they do work. The average tip on ebay is around $2 + free shipping.

    T18 comes in different variations as per

    http://www.hakko.com/english/tip_sel..._standard.html

    I recommend the chisel (D series).
    Last edited by retiredcaps; 08-24-2014, 07:51 PM.
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      Re: Hakko FX-888 Replacement tips Canada

      Thanks for the help! That raises another question. I mostly just use it for replacing capacitors on computer equipment. Is there a certain tip that works best? I've been using the B shape one and it seems to work fairly well.

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        Re: Hakko FX-888 Replacement tips Canada

        I like the chisel 1.8 or 2.4mm tip. 3.2mm might be required for desoldering things that have a big copper plane.
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          Re: Hakko FX-888 Replacement tips Canada

          I like the 3.2 mm chisel tip (T18-D32) for recapping. The heat capacity makes a difference to me, especially on motherboards. YMMV.

          I usually use B&D Enterprises (authorized Hakko distributor and sell on ebay as www*bdent*com). I don't know how much it costs to ship to Canada, though. For single items I generally find buying from them on ebay to be cheaper overall than paying for the item and shipping at their own site.

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            Re: Hakko FX-888 Replacement tips Canada

            Originally posted by Uniballer View Post
            I like the 3.2 mm chisel tip (T18-D32) for recapping. The heat capacity makes a difference to me, especially on motherboards. YMMV.
            Today, I had to do some repairs and I switched to the 3.2mm chisel tip for desoldering old caps off a PC multilayer motherboard. Adding some fresh leaded solder and temperature set at 375C made it very easy to remove the old caps.

            As I noted in the earlier post, my 3.2mm chisel tip is a sort by lowest price + free shipping ebay highly likely fake tip, but it worked fine today.
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