Hot Air Rework Station?

Forum 2005-2010 (read only) General Bar Sport
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well here is the deal,for 70-80$ sparkfun sells a Chinese knock off hackko 939 that can be bought anywhere online for less than 40 bucks

so is this hot air station their selling a cheap Chinese knock off that their just marking up to the real deal price? [edit]Aoyue, so YES it is[/edit]

who knows and I dont know why you would want to spend that kind of money without confidence

so take a look at this one

http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10001&catalogId=10001&pa=262705&productId=262705&keyCode=WSF&cid=GMC

Now I own a xytronic soldering station, was it cheap? yes it was only 50 bucks and its more or less their 45 watt iron stuck on a control box, but it is quality built, and I actually like the irons better than the hackko's we have at work

all in all I think they have good products for good prices, so check it out

and if you like the Aoyue, it may be a knock off but that means you can use hackko tips then you can buy them all day long for half the price

http://www.google.com/products?q=Aoyue+hot+air&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=uiVvS4qiDcqztgenwo3-BQ&sa=X&oi=product_result_group&ct=title&resnum=3&ved=0CBwQrQQwAg