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So So I saw this that you know whenever I'm doing the great search I have a couple things that I'm gonna do that for my designs, but I thought there's actually a really good Great search because a common Thing I suggest to people and they don't understand why they say, oh, you know It doesn't matter if you certainly get like an official best high-quality $500 Metcalf, but whatever you do get really good tips for your iron. The tips are actually kind of the most important part and this person who posted shows why so there's an image and The solder, you know, this is a blade tip. So the one the top you see it's pitted and Blackened and the one on the bottom is nice and shiny. So if you're not getting real tips You're like, I'm gonna save a couple bucks and you get like, you know $2 solder tips. They are You know, especially using with them let with lead free which is higher temperature the metal is going to Get damaged and that the coating isn't hardened and as you use it, it'll wear away and eventually you will lose that shiny cover that lets it conduct heat to your Electronic components and won't work anymore and you'll be sad and you'll be like, how come I hate soldering so much So it's really important to make sure that you get Good quality tips. So I'll show some Tips on the overhead real fast. These are like really used. These are obviously not brand new But in addition to like pointy tips This is a Auto focus Actually, hello, I know what's with these on here Autofocus zoom Zoom, oh my goodness. Okay. Okay. So this is a hoof tip Again, these are like they're these the black spots. It's just oxidized Fluxes, they're actually these are very clean good quality tips So the hoof tip good for drag soldering for QFPs or QFNs. I'll admit I don't I Don't do drag soldering as much. It's a sidelistic thing. Some people like to do it But hoof tips will hold a little bit of solder on the tip There but still be, you know, a fine a small amount so you won't get as much bridging Of course your standard screwdriver tip You know in general the Shorter the tip the better the heat conduction So stubby and you see this is nice and shiny and it's got the screwdriver There's a little oxidation on there from you know flux or whatever some plastic stubby shiny and You know nice edge that will be used for conducting heat This is this is kind of neat. This is a Resistor remover tip so it looks like it's like oh no what happened is it busted? No, it's actually on purpose This is a I think oh 603 remover. So the tip is exactly the same distance as Well, this is a 805 resistor. Let me see if to find somebody with a 603 Yeah So this is the same distance as an oh 603 so you can heat up both sides Easier and then you flick it off. So good for rework for removal not for placement and then One of my favorites. These are expensive, but oh so nice when you are hot bar soldering Oleds or Reworking or removing large components you want to heat up all the pit pads of a so I see 28 at a time or TQFP 100 you know this it will do the job. These are you can see this big Chunky part here is what retains the heat to get it to the blade. So, you know, these are gonna be more expensive But these are very very nice, especially if you're if you do a lot of big rework It's definitely worth the price and then of course find pitch tips as well Which you know it all I'll show better on digit keys just for SMT work. So let's go So can you go back to that person's So they're looking for T15 so if you go to dig a key for any iron you have you're gonna be able to get tips And I always recommend getting like a couple extra ones Especially of the very pointy SMT like fine pitch one because that one is the one that's going to The pit the tip is so small. It's the most likely to get damaged and eventually it will wear away The coating and you'll want to replace it or you will be able to conduct heat very well. So you go to the computer Okay So we can just look for a hat going general. Of course, you can buy soldering irons a variety of them and the assemblies and the pieces all in this beautiful purple and Yellow colorway You know, I think the FX series what I have the FX 888 Maybe this isn't a different. Oh These are tweezer handles. Sorry. Oh, those are for like, you know, you get like tweezers and you can like grab parts This will also leave it for your So during okay, I guess they go with it all together. So let's go to just the active And let's go for in stock we'll just to minimize So tons of tips so the T18 tips those are used for the FX 888 stations, which is what I recommend for beginners because they're about a hundred bucks JC here square, you know, I'll tell you another thing. This is definitely a place where I Sort by most popular down because the most popular tips are gonna have the most at stock the D24 2.4 millimeter inch wide screwdriver or the 1.6 inch Screwdriver or the 3.2 3.2 is like for chunky through hole But like fine through hole either the D24 D16 will do fine and Then this is this is the finest pitch one that you can get for the hackle It's you know, the B which I would recommend honestly if you're if you're gonna get a FX 88 it doesn't come with one of So it doesn't come with a B It comes with a screwdriver. I think I'd a D24 D16 So you'll definitely want to pick up a couple of these for SMT worth soldering small components Or even I like to drag solder with a fine tip Here's another fine tip. This is 0.8 inch Sorry 0.8. I don't know the difference between these 0.8. These are very similar It's the same. The thing that's interesting is if you're buying tips for Oh Angle tip, I don't tend to use these but some people like them. Well, this one's like very fine pitch But no because this is so narrow and thin you're not gonna get a lot of heat at the tip there like this is for You're gonna give you very frustrated for trying to do a lot of soldering with the tip this this pointy Not for these Metcow tips, but for some tips the temperature of the iron is set by the tip not by the body of the iron so or the like the temperature Making like whatever the base the brains On that goes you have a dial that you turn and you set the temperatures of using lead free versus lead it solder you achieve You know the temperature 750 versus 650, but if you're using something like a Metcow or some other like high-end Soldering irons the tips themselves are what sets the temperature because they have the measuring at the temperature measuring element and that will determine that the Temperature that the tip is at Just watch out because you might be if you get leaded versus lead free you might be going above or under temperature But none of these all of these hack-o-tips are passive style So you don't have to worry about that and then this is kind of cool. So good. Whoa. This is like a cartridge offset Well, this is a desoldering nozzle. Oh, I see there's a vacuum So there's a heating element and then there's a vacuum so you can heat and suction at the same time And then this is the t-15 series. So this is I guess for a different Iron than what I'm used to because these are these are like, you know, these are like this these types of tips where They poke it and the heating element is within The tip itself which makes them a little more expensive Low-cost tips, they're just metal and they go around the heating element But they don't necessarily make very good like they make okay contact But they don't make like fused bonded contacts. These are gonna get just faster heat up better Thermal conductivity better heat transfer But I'd say, you know, if you have your classic Hack-o compatible or hack-o Suttergarde, I'd say pick up these to start and Get like two Yeah, they're 10 bucks apiece, but they last a very very long time You know, I think I have my FX 88 that I use almost every day and I've had one of these b-tips I only change them out every like maybe once a year twice a year. So good quality tips are worth it for sure And that's the great search