Hi,
Just wondering if any of your manufacturers have considered putting up a hot-air re-work station for review? It doesn't appear any have been reviewed yet.
Cheers,
Dean
Hi,
Just wondering if any of your manufacturers have considered putting up a hot-air re-work station for review? It doesn't appear any have been reviewed yet.
Cheers,
Dean
Thanks xeonaj and clem57 - funny how sometimes someone likes something somewhere on the forum and bumps some older content back up the list and then things get re-discovered. That review was ... 2014 ... a whole five years ago. Rather surprisingly, I still have that unit on my desk right now - the original tip is slightly less pointy but the unit is still serving me well, having repaired many items and "earned" its keep in saving me from buying new things. I'd have to say that this was one of my better purchasing decisions - at my hobbyist usage level, it's good enough and durable enough while being affordable. I'd still recommend it despite its small "deceptions" in ratings.
In the distant past, I wrote some small contributions to a computing magazine, then I decided to have my own blog. While I do RoadTests here, I do a lot more "random" things on my own blog - some things as large as RoadTests, others are a bit of "off-the-cuff" opinion. I don't tend to promote it very much - there's always a risk to being famous (i.e. too many visitors, too many questions, etc), but I'm glad you both enjoyed the content. Unfortunately, sometimes time is lacking and weeks can go by between posts ... but I try my best 
.
Glad to have had a "second home" here at element14 though ... although I tend to use my personal blog here strictly for element14-related postings only.
- Gough
Thanks xeonaj and clem57 - funny how sometimes someone likes something somewhere on the forum and bumps some older content back up the list and then things get re-discovered. That review was ... 2014 ... a whole five years ago. Rather surprisingly, I still have that unit on my desk right now - the original tip is slightly less pointy but the unit is still serving me well, having repaired many items and "earned" its keep in saving me from buying new things. I'd have to say that this was one of my better purchasing decisions - at my hobbyist usage level, it's good enough and durable enough while being affordable. I'd still recommend it despite its small "deceptions" in ratings.
In the distant past, I wrote some small contributions to a computing magazine, then I decided to have my own blog. While I do RoadTests here, I do a lot more "random" things on my own blog - some things as large as RoadTests, others are a bit of "off-the-cuff" opinion. I don't tend to promote it very much - there's always a risk to being famous (i.e. too many visitors, too many questions, etc), but I'm glad you both enjoyed the content. Unfortunately, sometimes time is lacking and weeks can go by between posts ... but I try my best .
Glad to have had a "second home" here at element14 though ... although I tend to use my personal blog here strictly for element14-related postings only.
- Gough
