What Soldering Iron do you use?

[lucias]

Looking at buying a new Soldering Iron.. What soldering iron do you use for all of your RC needs?

[rschoi_75]

just a cheap weller 60 watt from radio shack. Its never let me down.

[lincpimp]

I use a weller soldering station. I really like it, and the adjustable settings will allow for a wide range of stuff.

[skellyo]

I just ordered a Hakko 936 from here:
http://www.bulldawgrc.com/ha936sost.html

Before that, a Weller 40W and a Hobbico 60W. The Weller doesn't get hot enough to solder large connectors or NiMh's easily and the Hobbico 60W keeps burning up tips (of course it was only $6).

Use an 80watt Weller for batt building, a123 work, and big conns. Does not burn up tips. My 40watt hobbico did that really well, lol. Light stuff (18th scale) use a weller gun. My 80watt came from here -

http://www.offshoreelectrics.com/search.php

whatever home depot sells... I think it is a 60watt but I am not sure. works great with the deans racing solder I use

Originally Posted by skellyo

I just ordered a Hakko 936 from here:
http://www.bulldawgrc.com/ha936sost.html

Before that, a Weller 40W and a Hobbico 60W. The Weller doesn't get hot enough to solder large connectors or NiMh's easily and the Hobbico 60W keeps burning up tips (of course it was only $6).

You will love it! I have the same one, with a upgrade wrap to match my radio And its awesome! Nothing better

[VintageMA]

I use a Weller 35watt iron that is about 20 years old still with the original tip.

I also have a Weller Pyropen (about 2 years old) that I use as my primary. Runs off of butane and gets about 1 hour per refill. More than plenty of heat to solder 8-10ga. wire not even on full power. Heats up in about 1 minute, uses electric ignition and is completely portable - and it's a Weller.

I don't have experience with some of the other hig-end units people are mentioning here, but I can say DON'T get the cheapo Radio Shack version as they never work right and the solder just doesn't melt right or stick to the tip.

[TexasSP]

Originally Posted by skellyo

I just ordered a Hakko 936 from here:
http://www.bulldawgrc.com/ha936sost.html

Before that, a Weller 40W and a Hobbico 60W. The Weller doesn't get hot enough to solder large connectors or NiMh's easily and the Hobbico 60W keeps burning up tips (of course it was only $6).

Thanks for that link and recommendation skellyo. I picked one up on sale for 89 bucks and used it the first time today. This thing is nice, easy to use, heats up quick, has a nice set of tips with it, and there are orange flames on it to boot!

I can highly recommend this soldering station as the best bang for the buck I have used.

[crazyjr]

I use a 10+year old ungar 40w for the smaller stuff (connectors) and a 100w for bigger jobs. Not sure of the brand of the 100w, got it from ebay

[Mike_D]

This one. I have had it for over five years and it still works great.

http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...&I=LXPR36&P=ML

[TexasSP]

Yeah, my little hobbico iron burns through tips left and right. I have a weller soldering gun for big stuff and need to buy another iron for my little stuff. I would like to get a soldering station like linc referred to.

[bruce750i]

Some pistol grip thingy with a turbo trigger and red and green leds on top from home depot. I haven't had a long lasting wand iron nor owned a weller.

[DRIFT_BUGGY]

Im looking at getting a decent soldering iron but at the moment I am using a cheap 60w

[glassdoctor]

Hakko 936.. the one with the bigger iron.

I also have the cheap red handle weller 40w and huge 80w irons... the fatty is great for batteries. They only problem with the cheap wellers is that they will burn themselves up... not an iron to have on all day, like at the track etc.

The hakko can stay on all day, no problem.... esp if not turned up all the way