Aldi soldering station review

tabbypurr · 2018-10-25T16:21:01+00:00

I got one. It works fine, can be set in increments of 10C with presets of 200, 300, 400. It displays the current temp rather than the set point, which is a plus. For what it is it's remarkably cheap. But... The tips are oddly shaped for electronic work. They work though. The sponge is maybe 2mm thick, and the sponge holder similar, so that feature is fairly hopeless. FWLIW there are 2 solder reels that can sit on the base unit - they're tiny. But the no 1 limitation is that the bits screw into place, they're threaded. So there appears to be zero hope of it lasting decades. NT

Oct 25, 2018 22 Replies

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whisky-dave 7 years ago

antex 690-SD they changed the plug design from a push DIN to a screw in DIN plug on the new stations we have the 690D

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Dave Plowman (News) 7 years ago

That must be old if it used those awful audio DIN plugs. ;-)

The locking versions, but in metal (same pin spacing etc) we used to call Touchel - used on some microphones.

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whisky-dave 7 years ago

Well ~7 years old , I did try to buy replacements and then sent me ones with the newer 270 deg spacing pins mine were the even older 180 deg ones.

that's our new ones and you can;t use the older irons on them. Pity of the old stations still work as we have 9 of them still working only one doesn;t have an iron to go with it.

So we bought 10 new irons with stations, these new stations are better than the old ones.

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