[sdiy] Bad Weller soldering iron

[Tim Ressel]

Yo,

Well, perhaps I'm just lucky: I've had my Weller
WES-50 now for a year with no problems. 

If you want quality, buy a MetCal. The preferred iron
of professionals. But be prepared to spend some
cabbage. And the tips cost so much that you have to
take care of them i.e. tin them at turn-off, etc.

--Tim


--- KA4HJH <ka4hjh at gte.net> wrote:
> >>>    So the solution was to buy a whole lot of
> replacement cords and
> >>> replace them as needed.  I have once seen the
> actual heater element go
> >>> bad, but that's pretty rare.
> >
> >You lucky !@#$  I've had at least 1/2 dozen heaters
> go bad, and one switch.
> >Only had the cord fail once. Last time the heater
> went bad it was only after
> >12 months, so I sent an abusive email to Cooper
> Tools. After that a customer
> >service rep called me, asked a few questions,
> determined it was indeed just
> >a lousy heater, not a failure caused by something
> else, and I was promptly
> >shipped a free replacement.
> 
> Where I used to work (20 years ago, all WTCP's) we
> had every spare
> part--heaters, cords, even the transformer (not to
> mention lots of tips and
> sponges). Not that we had to fix one very often. But
> I've heard that the
> newer ones just aren't the same.
> -- 
> 
> Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
> "The Mac Doctor"


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