 Okay, so a quick little update on a soldering station, a little vid I did, which was just basically so I've got this soldering station and these were the functions on it, you know you've got an air fan speed controller on off for the air, on off for the soldering and you can set your temperatures on both air and soldering by using these. I'd like to switch it on but in the two months that I've had it, well it was fine, the temperature I think goes up and down a little bit but you know because I try and set it so I don't, oh I can't explain it but the temperatures it just seemed like it was going up and down, sometimes the tip would get too mocked up too quickly like it was on too hot or something but I've purposely got it set quite cool anyway. But first of all the ring that goes around this is very brittle and it doesn't take a great deal of heat before bits start cracking off it, it's a black plastic ring which sort of like holds all this down and you know you've got the electricals in here, this rubber like sleeving and it does stick out quite well there, it gets very hot when you're using it, it does get very hot, my fingers tend to creep a little bit for a bit of extra control and it does get very very hot but without that sleeving there I'm sure this would be a, it'd be quite hard to use it on anything above 340 and that's all I use it on in January 340, 360 tops. I don't feel like I need to use it but I've had to stick all this together with several different layers of different insulating tape, just one so I can carry on using it while I wait for another eye in to come because you can't seem to get just these plastic rings which is a little bit annoying. The place I bought this from, I can put it down in the description but the place that I bought this from off eBay, it doesn't really offer any spares advice or anything, they told me to go and check my local hardware shop which I thought was going to be quite difficult for some Chinese generic loads of different names on it, you know would, would my old boy at the hardware store know where to get one of these but anyway there's a seller on eBay that will actually find parts and well they say they can get a new iron for me so I've ordered one off one, hopefully that's going to come through. If anybody wants that just let me know and I'll put a link for them in there as well. So you know I get past that I'm still using it, it's just going to put a part on me but today I go to use it. I just flick it on, flick it on the back, flick it on as normal, you know it's temperatures all pre-set and everything, I go and make my cup of tea, come back in, go to use it because I've got my first little project I've got to do and I go to use it and the onions cold so I have a look and it says zero zero eight dot and the dot the normal temperature thing it flashes to say it's you know it's going to temperature or it's at temperature or whatever it just flashes anyway it was just stationary it wasn't moving at all. So what's wrong with this thing now so I switch it on, switch it back on again wouldn't ruin you know if that make any difference so I decided I emailed the company anyway so look at these things because they offered me £15 as a refund for me locating this because they couldn't help me and they said it's a good little gesture and that's great I said yeah that's fantastic because it actually covers the cost and I get an extra couple of pounds for replacement but remember all I want is that ring and so when I get a replacement I'll carry on using this probably till it falls apart and then start using the other one or take the ring off the other one and put it on here. I don't know which other way works out you know I'd have an extra bit of this and a bit of wire to a plug and a fuse but anyway it don't work no this is I thought it was part of a transistor but it's not it's a triac it's a triac I don't remember which number it is it is a BT135600E and it actually used to live there and if I pull this down just to try and get a little bit of that used to live just inside there as you can probably see it's all a blue the top off the triac or when I took it apart this came out you know when I took it apart this you know fell out the unit as I was taking another part it's gonna place on top of that and of course I smelt in the back that's the first thing I did was one in the back it smelt smoky and then when I realized there was a big chunk of silicon and looked around at the other transistors and I just thought to myself you just thought it was transistor I don't know I didn't I didn't look up the number but there as you can see look it's actually it's actually split away or something but this is terrible I've been having to look after you know after writing the email to the company and I didn't even see this I don't know if this is like flux but all on this side there was a hair I could see a hair inside then I pulled it out unfortunately it went on the floor somewhere but it's just it's dirty the fuse holder when you try and do the fuse now I've tightened all this up because when I went to check the fuse at the back bit moronically because if it powered up and gave me the 008 obviously the fuse works you know I was just going for a procedure and I'm thinking I just check the fuse but this wasn't that tight and I was turning this around and all this was just twisting around on the inside and everything's just stuck in with just you know it's just not all over the place and this it almost looks like this part here which is connected to this front bit it's going to fail it looks like it's cracking already yeah I don't know I mean maybe that's okay maybe that's the way they're supposed to be but I'm sure if I'll Davey Jones on the review blog that I'll do this either it'll probably get a thumbs down I mean some of these things look like they're doing okay it looks like they've put some sticky cross here to stop these from coming out with heat maybe but look the sticky doesn't really work these can still come away it's not even stuck it to it they've they've gone along with that oh we better do that but they've done it like they were putting a snotty bit of ice cream icing on the cake that's everything just doesn't seem right you know even the resistors the way that they're putting they're in not even putting nice to the board and they real pride look everything's just glued I don't know if you can see that face the front plate that glue it's a glue it's better for a good lot of the knitting this unit cost me 62 pounds I see them now for 39 pounds I can see why they're probably dropping on price I got told not to buy cheap Chinese you know I had a power supply that went off funny on me and the father told me not to buy cheap Chinese that's all he said to me so I told you so I told you and he's right because it seems like everything I buy I have to fix or you know pretty much crap which is a bit it's not so good apart from the new power supply and I know that's a Chinese thing I know it is because I've seen the schematics for you they've been printed from the Chinese PDF system so I presume that they wouldn't have oriented in America have been printed out in Chinese PDF systems is it's a but even you know even that's faulty that's going back tomorrow that's being picked up tomorrow because it doesn't go doesn't work in parallel look it just goes to constant current and shorts that's basically what's happening in serial the same thing so it doesn't give me my 10 amps which is a pity because I need 10 amps I need multiple voltages so anyway so yeah so that that that's it that's two months on two months on from the video that I did about this saying I got it and great stuff I got this offer a temperature controlled solar station and two months later it's dead so I'm not impressed I'm not impressed and you know I like faffing around me electronics and you do the soldier I know guys all those horrible plug-in-the-wall jobs and it's terrible the tip is the size of a shovel head and you know I just don't want to use it and now I'm going to be quite distressed at the next period of time until I get to get a new a new soldier I haven't got enough money in my bank just to go and buy one I've got to see yeah never mind so there you go anybody thinking about investing one of these you know just take heed that they may not be as great as what you might think and don't think because it's got a 62-pound price tag but you only get 62 pounds worth of equipment and it doesn't seem to work like that and I shouldn't be you know I'm only mortal about this I know I shouldn't come on I'm supposed to do now I'm just glad that the toys I needed to sold it to get to work I've done them all and at least I've got some toys to play with I've made myself my flyback drivers and such for my Tesla and it's a different one to my Jacobs letter they're all working good I don't need sold them or as I'd be probably a little depressed anyway that's enough for me whining on just for the last finder ports I think my next solar station or my next solar iron so don't really use the hot air gun so much ironically that still works I think we use it but I think I'll probably you know get something like a weller or I can't afford a HKO however you're supposed to say it I know that they're really good because they get raped up by lots of people if anybody can suggest to me you know a decent solar decent solar iron temperature controlled that doesn't take up too much space part of the reason why I bought this was because it has got quite a small you know form on it and I could pop it on top of my meter there out of the way and it was and it was great and it was great because it was just in the right place for me I'm right-handed and allow me to get everywhere I need to with a with the iron so you know up until it breaking and this I was quite happy so in some respects if you don't have this happen and you don't have whatever's happened in here thumbs up but if you do it's a thumbs down anyway thanks for watching thanks for listening catch you soon bye