Equipment . Yihua 853D Solder Station

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858D mentioned recently here and following:

My build progress

Beautiful case. Don’t be scared of surface mount - but it does help to have a few specialist tools. A cheap hot air station (Like the 858D that’s usally about $70), a good magnifier, some good fine tip tweezers (a lot of the hot air stations come with them free.) and a syringe of solder paste with some assorted sizes of luer lock tips…add in a little practice and you’ll be set If you want to step it up then a video microscope helps even more than a magnifier, and getting stencils to …

and was favorably reviewed on the EEVblog YouTube channel.