$35 Soldering Station Followup - 936 eBay Chinese Knockoff

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This is a followup review of the eBay 936 soldering station. We used this product for over 20 hours and it worked well for our latest electronics project. In this video we take it back apart and see how the insides are holding up after use.

The original review video can be found here: 936 Soldering Station - Really Affordable from Ebay.

$35 Soldering Station Followup - 936 eBay Knockoff

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It's honestly impressive they are selling this for such a low price.

If I were to produce a reproduction of the Hakko 936 it would not be worthwhile. Just the transformer alone is a good 40 dollars or so. I don't know where they source these parts so cheaply.

vejymonsta

excellent review. thank you for taking the time for us.

TMR

2:28 that transistor is bent a bit close to the heatsink. A small bent of the leads should fix it, from getting heat transfer

D_Printing

Two things to check besides the magic smoke is how well it holds the set temperature and ensuring there is no voltage present on the tip which might destroy sensitive components. If you're just soldering wires together, it's not that important but would be for PCB builds.

budude

Hmm, is that mains input fused at the bottom of the control circuit? How's the separation to low voltage stuff?

spronkey

liked the video and bought one on Ebay. Cost was $27

jimjacques

Hi can you please tell me the voltage of transformer without load?

MariusIon

It's about $14 cheaper now! I'm about to pick this up and learn how to solder to fix my RC connectors.

WreckinStreetsDaily

I have the 937D and it looks like the only difference it the digital read out. I'm far from an expert and having a terrible time soldering 10 gauge wire with mine. Are any of you able to do that? and if so, any suggestions? What tip do you use, or whatever? Or is 480c not enough for that?

Otherwise it does fine, but just not worth it for me if it won't do some of the larger wire.

reluctantrider

After 1.5 years my tip is not heating up. I see when you take off the tip there is a white plastic tube that seems to go all the way to the end. Mine has a band of metal extending from the end and some metal is covering the end of the tip. Not sure if this is the problem. One would expect some metal there to transfer heat to the tip that goes over it. Can I confirm that you don't have a metal band at the end? Or any other reason for the tip not heating up? I haven't opened up the box to have a look. Should probably do that.

boffinschist