Re: Soldering irons: made in America but designed in Russia?

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From: Rich Grise
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:16

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On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:16:45 +0100, ian field wrote:
> "Joerg" <notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> wrote in message
>>
>> Last year in December I bought a WES51 also here for the lab, to have a
>> spare. But I started using it a lot because the tiny PES51 pencil lays
>> much nicer in the hand than the fat LR-20 of the older stations. They
>> also added a nice feature, not important to me but to companies and the
>> fire marshall: If the iron isn't moved in an hour or so it automatically
>> shuts down. Grand total of $92 plus tax, with pencil and one tip, not a
>> bad deal at all.
>>
> Maybe they learned from the mass exodus of customers and fixed the non
> existent reliability since the last time I had the misfortune to pay good
> money for one of their products, but once bitten twice shy, I'm not giving
> them any more of my money.

The same reason I'll never buy another NiMH battery or CFL light.

Cheers!
Rich

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