Soldering Iron options

Please drop some links for the soldering irons y’all use, mine is apparently lost in my parent’s attic, and thinking of, probably too large for console modding.

I figured to ask here as I believe the console modding community here would already have some good finds. I’m also wanting todo a battery mod to my GBC soon.

refurbishedrefurbisher,

I use the Yihua 8786D-I. Combo iron and heat gun. Works fantastically. Been using it for a few years at this point.

Yihua makes clones of Hakko products.

There’s also the Pinecil, which I hear is good.

karpintero,

Hakko or Weller are usually well recommended

WhiteRice,

Pinecil is pretty great for what it is. Hakko’s always a safe bet.

BitterSweet,

I’m never going to be doing much beyond console modding and I travel a bit so I went Pinecil.

I saw Hakko as a great option, was just a bit much for my use case.

excitingburp,

I started with a Hakko, $120. It blows my mind how much better a $25 soldering iron (Pinecil V2) is. Both only have 2 buttons, but the Hakko does a terrible job with them. The Hakko also takes significantly longer to heat, which resulted in me running it really hot when I first started out.

thisisawayoflife,

Metcal.

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