I'll chime in here. For soldering work that goes anywhere beyond say, connecting one lug and having your work look like you used a 2.95 iron to do it, this is a QUALITY iron (OK, "soldering station"), and after you use it you will wonder how you did without it for so long.

I recently decided to build a solar panel, and probably themost dauntin part of the project was the delicate and fragile nature of solar cells. I broke a bunch and had one heck of a time attaching the tab wires. Then I spoke to an electronics guy who asked me about the tools I was using. He pointed me at this iron, taught me proper soldering technique, and viola! Not easy, but not seemingly impossible either.

Not bad. About $4.50 cheaper than it normally is (from cs-sales).

Which tip should I get to go with it? I'm guessing the sharpest point conical tip they have? I see a 1/64, but it says it's for the WES51. Will it fit the WLC100 too? I do see a bigger .031 tip that says for WLC100. Too bad shipping is $5+ for just the tips since it seems only 3rd parties sell them. But perhaps (though I haven't tried) if you order the iron from one (like cs-sales), plus a tip, shipping wouldn't be much more for the tip, so it'd come out about the same as getting the $40.45 iron from Amazon + a tip from the 3rd party.?

Also trying to decide on tip cleaners, flux, desolder wick and maybe desolder pump.

Bump for answers.

Weller is certainly a decent industrial brand, but, I gotta say.... If you think this is good, you haven't used an OKI/Metcal. There's something to be said for getting hot enough to be at temperature within 5 seconds of turning it on and maintaining proper temperature no matter whether you are soldering a little dinky thing or some meaty thing attached to a power plane.

Cyfun said:*bump*

Price dropped to $35.95. Hot deal! (pun intended)
Did it? Unless I'm mistaken (which happens often), still looks like $40.45 from Amazon (the $35.95 price has $9 shipping).

I've been using this iron for years with the ST7 tip to mod game consoles. Works great!