<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp9a5c5b89yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Hi all, I've been struggling with my old soldering iron, it's a plug straight into the mains type (no temperature control) and while it's been fine for 20 years with a fat tip for bigger jobs it seems to get too hot with smaller tips and burns easily and the standard tip is much too big for fiddly little jobs.</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">So I was thinking of getting something newer with better control, and as I have found the need of a heat gun now and again I thought I'd look at the 2 in 1 jobs similar to the hot air gun at the hackspace. While looking at various Chinese models I came across some 3 in 1 types which also include a DC bench power supply and was wondering if anyone's had any experience with them and if they're any good or is it a case of trying to do too many things and being unsatisfactory at all of them?</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The particular one I was looking at is</div><div><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;">https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mbuynow-Soldering-Station-Solder-Nozzles/dp/B076J8MN15</span></font></div><div><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Cheers</span></font></div><div><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Aled.</span></font></div></div></body></html>