I got a Pace iron recently and it is the best iron I have ever touched.
Under $200 heats up in seconds feels comfortable, lots of tips, flow is
wonderful. It's great
g wong
Jeffrey Pontius wrote:
>
> On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 jpotter@... wrote:
> > Comparing the quality of my soldering on
> > the MOTMs using the Weller WTCPT to the PAIA w/ a cheap $20 Radio
> > Shack iron is embarrasing.
>
> > So anyway - the purpose of this note is to let anyone considering a
> > better soldering iron and better solder know that, yes, it's well
> > worth it.
> I can ID with JP on this. Not that I'm an expert solderer (Paul S. gave
> me a C- (if I remember correctly) on one of my first kits). Switching to
> a good soldering iron helped me out considerably; less frustrating, better
> solder joints (ok, I'm probably up to a C+ on Paul's scale), faster
> assembly - well worth the expense. Jeff