Review on 🔧 Anesty Professional Digital Desoldering Station: Unleash Your Soldering Skills! by Edgar Gomez

I have used a production desoldering station in the past so setting up and running this unit was a breeze. I managed to damage a clogged tip during a production prototype run and had to order a $30 replacement parts kit. If your board has flux in it, it will get into your filters. They can be washed with alcohol, but I ended up replacing all the filters with several layers of paper towels. During the actual production work, the device must be regularly cooled and cleaned. A hot soldering iron cuts a mass of solder from a coil of spring (120W JBC with a chisel or similar) for cleaning. I was expecting to end up buying a $1400 JBC setup for actual production work, but I couldn't kill this unit. My only real performance complaint is that if you remove the solder ASAP, the glass tube gets very hot (you won't burn yourself if you don't touch it) and the tip has trouble transferring heat. RoHS desoldering requires high temperatures to prevent tip binding (415°C) during fabrication work. Lead solder offers excellent fluidity at 385°C. Edit: The tip got stuck and wouldn't clean even by tapping the cleaning rod on the table when the station was set to 480C. I dropped a wrench on a metal nut to try and replace the entire assembly with the one I ordered and the black plastic (bakelite?) attachment point shattered. I don't see an easy way to fix this as the whole crank won't work without this part. I chose to install JBC as a replacement as I cannot afford further downtime due to defective parts on this station. I changed my rating from 5 stars to 4 stars because it did most of the work well, was 1/10 the price of JBC gear and I expected it to fail at some point in actual production work. Just not anytime soon.