Received about a year ago a severely defective Hakko soldering iron, only discovered it is severely defective long after the warranty has expired. When set to 850*C and has fully warmed up, no increase in temperature, the actual temperature of the tip is just under 150*C. 😳
Has anyone experienced this and successfully repaired this terrible deficiency?
Thanks in advance! 🙂
PS Why is it nothing of any reliability comes out of China? Rhetorical question, we know it is because no fully Communist country can manufacture anything like the Western world. No one made anything as good as the Dutch, Germans, and the Swedish, though might be a tad biased being Dutch, English, Frisian, German, Irish, Norman, Pomeranian, Prussian, Swedish, and Welsh. Ha.
Has anyone experienced this and successfully repaired this terrible deficiency?
Thanks in advance! 🙂
PS Why is it nothing of any reliability comes out of China? Rhetorical question, we know it is because no fully Communist country can manufacture anything like the Western world. No one made anything as good as the Dutch, Germans, and the Swedish, though might be a tad biased being Dutch, English, Frisian, German, Irish, Norman, Pomeranian, Prussian, Swedish, and Welsh. Ha.
Thats how sellers make money, turnover, thats what counts, the more often you can sell stuff, the better. Selling crap is much more rewarding than stuff working a lifetime. Crap by design, a win win for the chinese, for our importers, our local shops, our government...and we hold the bag.
Has nothing to do with communism, more like a bit to far taken "free market", market without the slightest sense of responsibility
Has nothing to do with communism, more like a bit to far taken "free market", market without the slightest sense of responsibility
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Your about 500°C too hot.
340°C is nearer the mark.
Try replacing the heater element (containing temperature sensor).
It should be clear in the manual the part number and how to do this.
You will likely need access to a second iron to carry out this repair.
No need for anti-Chinese goods rant.
They can make good or bad same as anywhere.
340°C is nearer the mark.
Try replacing the heater element (containing temperature sensor).
It should be clear in the manual the part number and how to do this.
You will likely need access to a second iron to carry out this repair.
No need for anti-Chinese goods rant.
They can make good or bad same as anywhere.
Hello,
Right now we have a problem in the Netherlands with these bikes manufactured in my country. Long story short they break into two pieces. Blue collar people working at the company were told to keep quiet by the management but now the government run a test and decided they cannot be used or sold anymore. It is all about the money.
Planned obsolescence. Even if you want to you cannot buy a washing machine that will run two decades. Staff that can repair them are hard to find so just buy a new every five years.
Greetings, Eduard
Right now we have a problem in the Netherlands with these bikes manufactured in my country. Long story short they break into two pieces. Blue collar people working at the company were told to keep quiet by the management but now the government run a test and decided they cannot be used or sold anymore. It is all about the money.
Planned obsolescence. Even if you want to you cannot buy a washing machine that will run two decades. Staff that can repair them are hard to find so just buy a new every five years.
Greetings, Eduard
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A software issue in a soldering station. Stuff like that makes me appreciate my Weller TCP and METCAL MX-500 even more.
Tom
Tom
The only way to buy genuine products is to buy directly from the manufacturer or from an authorized distributor. Even then there's no guarantee, but the odds are pretty low that you'll get a fake if you go that route.
I don't know if Bezos' Bookstore is an authorized distributor of Hakko.
Tom
I don't know if Bezos' Bookstore is an authorized distributor of Hakko.
Tom
Looks like the one I purchased from is at least a regarded seller: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/recommend-a-soldering-iron.311293/.
However, good to know there are scammers on there, thank you! 😀
Yes! Das ist alles! Much appreciated! 😀
Additional help if bump that button on the left, when trying to change the temperature.
Yes, thankfully could be reset.
I thought asked here for recommendations, don't recall the Weller being recommended, I much prefer analogue (newest vehicle I am a custodian of is a 1971 Volkswagen Variant 1600LE with the original FI, which uses transistors and a few inputs).
Carburetors suck. 😉 Though FI blows, however, superior at providing the right amount, timing, and placement. I love things older, the aforementioned Volkswagen was the first mass produced vehicle with electronic FI (Mercedes300SL has mechanical FI), starting with the August 1967 models. Uses just four sensors for the computer: ambient temperature, cylinder head temperature, engine vacuum, and throttle position. Very easy to work on and a pleasure to drive.
I have unintentionally ended up with three typewriters (bought a second for the case so could carry to my science class to write the laboratory notes (some reason folks were surprised by me doing this, far easier then writing notes and later writing them up) and another was sitting by the dumpster, mains cable neatly coiled and tucked in), refuse to go with electronic books (I have a few books, only about 2000, so not worth the trouble), loath CDs (no clue how to repair a CD player), use fountain pens (hard for me to push the ball in), etcetera. Funny is I was asked to turn on and set up the tele at church, could not figure out the remote, so someone else does that for me (I grew up with a Magnavox valve tele and Opa used a rifle cleaning rod with a pencil eraser stuck to the end to reach the buttons). What did we watch on Saturday nights? "Keeping up Appearances" followed by the even better "Are you Being Served?" (my favorite being Mr. Humphries, in part because a little different and interesting character).
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