Howard Winter wrote:
> I have one as well, and I agree, it does a good job.  I like the clever way a single air pump acts as a smoke extractor when using the iron, and as the 
> hot air supply for the rework "pen".  I haven't found a source of bits for the iron locally, though.  Anyone know if it uses the same pattern as any of 
> the better-known makes?

I've heard the Aoyue soldering stations are direct copies of some of Haako's 
machines - it might be worth seeing if any of the Haako solder stations look 
similar or take similar parts.
Not sure where you'd get air pumps and heating elements from, but you should 
be able to get hot air nozzles and soldering iron tips easily enough.

I've been looking into getting one of the 968 solder stations, but for now my 
Antex 660TC is fine. Plenty of power (50W) too, so it's good for replacing 
capacitors on motherboards.

 > Wow, that price is excellent!  I had to pay rather a lot more than this for
 > a 230V version, from Germany.

Just out of curiosity, did you buy it from an eBay seller?

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