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Funny I picked up a 75W Weller at the hardware store last week. The only 'iron' they had cheaper was a 'wood burning kit' so I went with a gun. I have not used a soldering gun in ages (when I first started I had my grandpa's Weller which broke a long time ago), and it surprisingly was fairly natural. I like Irons, but the off the shelf stuff tends to die before the tip goes bad (usually about 1 years time). I've been running cheap used irons for the past ~7 years, but eventually they all wore out, and I needed a good one so I went with new.
I technically still have an iron....An ancient 75W cattle prod/night stick of an iron that would probably be able to join some Buicks (that Iron is reserved for chassis ground, and thick guage work). That iron makes my 75W Weller look like a 20W light weight (I'd guess the transformer inefficiency results in less of that power going in to heat than a resistive iron).
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