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Picked a $12 soldering iron over a $60 station for a Nikon F2 meter repair and now I am second guessing
I had a Nikon F2 come in with a dead meter circuit and the customer wanted it done cheap. I stood in the shop looking at my old Weller station that finally died and a $12 pencil iron from the hardware store. I went with the cheap pencil because the job was just two small joints on the ring resistor and I did not want to wait a week for a new station to ship. It went fine for the first joint but the tip was too fat and I nicked a wire on the second one. I got it working but it took me three times as long and I had to redo the wire. Now I am wondering if I should have just bought the $60 station in the first place. What do you all keep on the bench for tiny camera work like this?
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parker_campbell2d ago
The tip being too fat was the real problem there, not the price. A $12 iron with a fine tip would've done that job fine, and a $60 station with a fat tip would've nicked the same wire.
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