Hello,

I'm finally getting around to buying a soldering station. My old Weller has
served me well but the time has come to move on to something more versatile
and with better temperature control.

My question concerns the selection of soldering tips that are most useful
for a hobbyist. I'll be doing mostly through-hole soldering for now, but I
will also be working with SMD components. The station comes with a 0.8mm
conical tip. I am thinking that a long, fine conical tip, ~0.5mm would be
right for SMD work with multi-pin devices, and probably also a 1.6mm chisel
tip for the occasional need to solder connectors and so forth. Sound good?

This station also accepts SMD tweezers with heated tips. Is there actually
any advantage to those vs. placing the component with tweezers & soldering
the pads individually?

Thanks for your help,

 Glenn Minch

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