I love my wep 882D hot air and soldering iron station I just got it this year back in the summer from their AMAZON store/shop. They provide x3 hot air tubes, and iron tips with clear holder pouch. WORTH EVERY PENNY 😊
Chris, you forgot the most sacred thing to do in all of soldering iron reviews!! Wet the sponge!!! Dave didn't. Ask him how that went, but we forgave Dave.😁 great video.
Something I have never seen in these rework stations is a 2 in 1 tweezers and hot air. If your going to do electronics you get a soldering iron, that is standard. But then you want to make your life a bit easier so you want hot air and tweezers but every combined unit makes you replace your Iron. I like my iron, its a decent Pace iron comfortable and powerful. But unless I buy 2 individual units I have to replace my Iron as no one seems to have a combined tweezers and hot air. I have never seen that option available. On a separate note that does look like a good Iron and the tweezers look ok too. I don't think I like the buttons on the combined unit wand but that's an individuals choice. Look forward to seeing some vids where they make your life that bit easier, you deserve it.
Nice studio setup. It's early days for the new studio, might want to investigate solutions for mic to table sounds being picked up. But I get it, it's early days for the new digs.
Well it didnt matter To them. But they asked if i knew what happened to cause it so they could fix any issues that may be caused by them. Which it wasnt
I can't remember if you figured it out, but what looks like a fuse under the rubber flap on the front is a calibration sensor. The idea is that you hold the tip against it and then press the calibration button on the front panel (or some process similar), the unit can then make sure your set temperature is actually what the tip gets to.
If you have a chance to revisit this, would you please confirm that the tips of the irons are connected to the ground pin of the base station? I'm interested in upgrading to this class of iron, but a bunch of the reviews I've seen of other similarly priced units have frequently had significant safety issues, such as voltage on the tip, or the tip otherwise not being grounded, and it would be nice to see confirmation from a 3rd party that the WEP tools don't do that. Also probably good for the safety of vintage motherboards. I do wish they offered the desoldering station as a stand alone station or in combination with the high precision one since I don't feel the need for both a high precision iron and an old hakko 928 style tip iron.
They have standalone hotair. The desoldering is a Combo but you can unplug the soldering iron side. I know it still makes it larger for a base unit, but the majority of that is the pump as for this unit There are thermocouples to keep the tips the exact temperature and those were the little fuses things i mentioned to which I corrected it in the description after I was corrected myself as far as the Tips grounding. I’m pretty sure they do. They have a O-ring style gasket or black line of something on the inside of the tip and there is an additional tip that clicks into the unit itself. It’s very sturdy. I am now using this exclusively because it is so awesome. The standalone soldering station was inexpensive. The hot tweezers were slightly more, but I needed them for all of my repairs, I also purchased two more high power stations that I’m going to be reviewing shortly one is for BGA type repair and has a high temperature or high power, hot air removal with a soldering iron combo
@@DeadCat-42 Typical! Atari fans trying to take the glory of the best system ever created! If Atari really felt like the Amiga should have been an Atari they should have bought the bought the company and released it, not tried to bury it. :-) There! that's my stir the pot effort for today, don't make me come back. No really I'm too old for this........... lol
Ahhhh get industrial shelves my dude. I don't want those Amigas to topple like the other ones :'( Saying this since I could never afford that equipment and just emulate with Amiberry and Pimiga 4
Dr. Chris, you do realize that you opened up a Pandora box with your Fahrenheit and Communist nomenclature? Why? Well for us Europeans (or almost entire rest of the World) its Celsius and Fascist setting now...
Now I'm in a quandary! I was born in the UK and used Communist, but for 24 years I have lived in the US so now use Frankenstein's (24 years and it still doesn't sit right) to quote the great Korben Dallas "I only speak two languages, English and bad English"
luv the studio! Good on Weptools.
Those caps flew of very easy, good stuff Chris 👍
I especially like those tweezers. I can't wait to see you use those for repairs, as in add fresh solder to both sides of the concrete and remove.
I love my wep 882D hot air and soldering iron station I just got it this year back in the summer from their AMAZON store/shop. They provide x3 hot air tubes, and iron tips with clear holder pouch. WORTH EVERY PENNY 😊
Chris, you forgot the most sacred thing to do in all of soldering iron reviews!! Wet the sponge!!!
Dave didn't. Ask him how that went, but we forgave Dave.😁 great video.
i use pace st115 soldering desoldring station with td100 ans sx90 ! the best
Something I have never seen in these rework stations is a 2 in 1 tweezers and hot air. If your going to do electronics you get a soldering iron, that is standard. But then you want to make your life a bit easier so you want hot air and tweezers but every combined unit makes you replace your Iron. I like my iron, its a decent Pace iron comfortable and powerful. But unless I buy 2 individual units I have to replace my Iron as no one seems to have a combined tweezers and hot air. I have never seen that option available.
On a separate note that does look like a good Iron and the tweezers look ok too. I don't think I like the buttons on the combined unit wand but that's an individuals choice.
Look forward to seeing some vids where they make your life that bit easier, you deserve it.
Nice studio setup. It's early days for the new studio, might want to investigate solutions for mic to table sounds being picked up. But I get it, it's early days for the new digs.
“They said no problem, no questions” next sentence “they asked what happened”
😂
Well it didnt matter
To them. But they asked if i knew what happened to cause it so they could fix any issues that may be caused by them. Which it wasnt
Hi Chris, thats a nice soldering iron. I like that. Its very handy on these boards. Greetings from Steven from the Netherlands
I can't remember if you figured it out, but what looks like a fuse under the rubber flap on the front is a calibration sensor. The idea is that you hold the tip against it and then press the calibration button on the front panel (or some process similar), the unit can then make sure your set temperature is actually what the tip gets to.
Yes I wrote all of that in the extended description
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Reading? You expect me to read?? ;-)
New set looks great
wow the new place looks awesome < 3
It’s getting there I still have some more arranging to do
Could use a direct amazon link to the station with the tweezers...link didn't seem to show that particular model.
Theyre there … also on weptools.com. www.weptools.com/products/tweezer-soldering-iron-982d3
I am in the Hakko ecosystem but those are nice looking tools. Welcome to using hot tweezers, lol.. You have now entered the world of never going back.
Well amiga pesky acid caps still get loreana. Old acid solder dont melt
Those HAWT tweasers!!!! Dang...
I may have been one of your viewers who purchased. lol
If you have a chance to revisit this, would you please confirm that the tips of the irons are connected to the ground pin of the base station? I'm interested in upgrading to this class of iron, but a bunch of the reviews I've seen of other similarly priced units have frequently had significant safety issues, such as voltage on the tip, or the tip otherwise not being grounded, and it would be nice to see confirmation from a 3rd party that the WEP tools don't do that. Also probably good for the safety of vintage motherboards.
I do wish they offered the desoldering station as a stand alone station or in combination with the high precision one since I don't feel the need for both a high precision iron and an old hakko 928 style tip iron.
They have standalone hotair. The desoldering is a
Combo but you can unplug the soldering iron side. I know it still makes it larger for a base unit, but the majority of that is the pump as for this unit There are thermocouples to keep the tips the exact temperature and those were the little fuses things i mentioned to which I corrected it in the description after I was corrected myself as far as the Tips grounding. I’m pretty sure they do. They have a O-ring style gasket or black line of something on the inside of the tip and there is an additional tip that clicks into the unit itself. It’s very sturdy. I am now using this exclusively because it is so awesome. The standalone soldering station was inexpensive. The hot tweezers were slightly more, but I needed them for all of my repairs, I also purchased two more high power stations that I’m going to be reviewing shortly one is for BGA type repair and has a high temperature or high power, hot air removal with a soldering iron combo
Chris you monster! You didn't drop water on the sponge to watch it expand. ;-)
20:00 needed a dad joke or a moan
Thanks Dr Chris 👍🏻 Today I am learning that my bank account is getting smaller due to your review content.. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Cheers 🍻
and my paypal credit account gets deeper and deeper too
I have no soldering game :). I do solder, but I could definitely pro tips.
soooooo no more cutting? YAAY! 😀
On safe ones no on acid death yeah
I don't know about WEP but their 948D looks the same as a Yihua 948D.
This just popped up on my feed. Is that an Atari mega St on your shelf?
All Commodore Amigas!! Atari is the enemy
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration lol, the Amiga is an Atari, look at the names on the chipset and who designed it and compare it to an Atari 800.
@@DeadCat-42 Typical! Atari fans trying to take the glory of the best system ever created! If Atari really felt like the Amiga should have been an Atari they should have bought the bought the company and released it, not tried to bury it. :-)
There! that's my stir the pot effort for today, don't make me come back. No really I'm too old for this........... lol
Dr. Chris I am pretty sure this “episode” included some wasted potential for the usual sound effects. :D Cool products though. :)
I think so too!
Ahhhh get industrial shelves my dude. I don't want those Amigas to topple like the other ones :'(
Saying this since I could never afford that equipment and just emulate with Amiberry and Pimiga 4
SOLD……. I need a new precision irion.
WEP ...China's best! Heh. But hey if they keep sending replacements for free....
You are mispronouncing the degrees Frankensteins.
Lorena is in trouble, out of a job soon?
never!
Lorena is a member of the bomb squad,... explosion proof.
Lorena in a new dress???
@@daishi5571 A hot new dress ;^)
Dr. Chris, you do realize that you opened up a Pandora box with your Fahrenheit and Communist nomenclature? Why? Well for us Europeans (or almost entire rest of the World) its Celsius and Fascist setting now...
Now I'm in a quandary! I was born in the UK and used Communist, but for 24 years I have lived in the US so now use Frankenstein's (24 years and it still doesn't sit right) to quote the great Korben Dallas "I only speak two languages, English and bad English"
Nice to now 98 % of the world is communist ..Australia is now communist.. I am a commie... oh noooo