Weller Soldering Irons SUCK!!!

Burned and reburned again!

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• weller
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• welding
• solder
• radio shack

[ElektroHut]

@herksen No Weller does have their "Marksman" irons in Red. They are bottom of barrel entry-level irons. The light blue ones are typically for the professional level.

[Jhfgsjdcd]

you should get a wlc100

[500lbkoolaidman]

Their cheaper irons suck. I have a 35W and the tip just disappears, I have to keep grinding a new tip when it goes flat. On the flip side though, I've used their soldering stations before like the WES51 and they are the bomb. Some companies produce good and bad products... doesn't make weller a bad company but I'll never buy another cheap iron from them again. Looking into a station though, whole different story.

[pdeboer1987]

I have that one, but that's the cheapest of them all! My WP25 continues to work just fine. Their cheapest should still work though. Unacceptable.

[domain38]

Just a note, the cheap Weller stuff and most of the US Weller products are (including the irons in the vid) are made on the cheap in Mexico (even says so on the pack), good quality Weller equipment is made in Germany. Being in the UK myself, most of the cheap irons are also made in Germany over here, but those orange handled ones are always made in Mexico by the looks of it. I have one too and its not so great, my WD1000 Weller station on the other hand....whole different ball game!

[herksen]

Some news for you:

By coincidence I promised my EC 2002 soldering station to a friend of mine, who is interested in soldering electronics.

TODAY I bought a NEW Weller soldering station.

The WX2020. Just Google for WX2020.

I'm now 55 years old, and this new (state of the art!!) unit will simply OUTLIVE me...

Cheers

Robbert

The Netherlands

[herksen]

My WELLER soldering station is 2011 - 1981 = 30 years old.

How is that for QUALITY!!

Please DO NOT say that WELLER sucks.

[herksen]

I really wonder how much you paid for that (chinese) CRAP?

If it's 10 US$, than you certainly have been fooled by the dealer.

REAL Weller lasts (almost for LIFE!!).

I have here a WELLER EC-2002 soldering station, and... I bought it in 1981 (the year of it's introduction, discontinued in 2002), and my EC 2002 is STILL working, day in day out.

Let's calculate. It's now 2011 and I bought it in 1981.

Mine is 2011 - 1981 = 30 years old.

I paid a LOT, because of the digital temperature control!

[herksen]

Hi,

From your video I IMMEDIATELY noticed that your 'WELLER' soldering iron is PHONEY stuff.

Not everything that has the WELLER brandname slapped on it IS actually a Weller.

Moreover, the color is simply WRONG, all WELLER soldering irons are light blue.

Yours is horribly red/orange. So next time to go for WELLER: it's Light Blue!!

Even the packaging that you show in the video is phoney!!!

WELLER products come in similar cartons, but with white, red and blue colors.

[xxsurcentralxx]

GOOD VID...SAME HAS HAPPEN TO ME BUT NOT ALL OF THEM ARE LIKE THAT....