>>108539615
E-waste. Good for one quick repair, but unusable even for small hobby projects.

>>108539615
I have a TS101 and besides the bits being expensive as fuck it's alright for quick shit. Like for instance, I needed to fully disassemble my dualsense which involved desoldering/soldering 4 cables. That I could do with this. Or solder mouse switches. Does that appropriately well. I can do that sort of repair on my computer desk instead of having the whole fucking soldering station in there.

>>108539615
It's just a meme. Any $5 soldering tool will do.
/g/ loves moddable open-source firmware, and they get excited when they see this.

25$ is overpriced? ill admit i felt like a douche when shipping doubled it. bunch of yellow niggers. id be shilling and using their stupid products and making builds today but they banned me from the discord years ago for i shit you not having a pepe profile pic

Alright /g/ put a bunch of recommendations in here
I heard the old hakko stations everyone used to recommend are now just overpriced old shit

>>108539615
i like my chink t12 iron

>>108539615
>$26
>overpriced
HOW poor are you?

chinks sell """"""clones"""""""" (lmao that's what they call them) of this for less, no retarded $10 shipping either.

>>108539615
Works well enough for small work, pretty convenient.
Was <$30 CAD for me including shipping from the official site, can't complain. Just make sure you don't get gouged shipping, dunno why some people have to pay out the ass for that.

>>108540002
same, i got a quicko one 5 years ago, still running today like it did the day i got it.

>>108539855
no it's 40 now isn't it?

>>108539724
That's retarded anyways, you should have a separate place for doing soldering. Well vented and easy to clean up.

>>108540516
I do it twice a year maybe

>>108540457
i wouldnt know i hate pine64 and wont buy anything from them nor help their faggoty community

>>108539805
Nobody ever got excited seeing that. What the fuck are you going to mod in there? It's like modding a pregnancy test, also idiotic and pointless.
Only use case it would have is being used away from your workbench. Or emergency tool during blackouts, for people living offdrig etc.
When it comes to material quality, they're worthless, literally made of scraps that nobody needs in china. Also every single manufacturer lies about max power. If there's anything consistent about these products, it's the lies about their specs.

be sure to post your pinecils uptime in the uptime thread

>>108539805
>Any $5 soldering tool will do.
even a 50 year old one will do just fine desu. soldering tools are immortal, as long as they are compatible with your plugs.

>>108540549
>idiotic and pointless.
>Only use case it would have is being used away from your workbench. Or emergency tool during blackouts, for people living offdrig etc.
>When it comes to material quality, they're worthless, literally made of scraps that nobody needs in china. Also every single manufacturer lies about max power. If there's anything consistent about these products, it's the lie
one thing i would add is a low temp alarm but it's not worth the effort