#93 – Hakko On-The-Go Soldering Kit & the FX-901 Portable Iron

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If you’ve done much soldering on the job, you’ve probably found yourself in a situation where your trusty $25 plug-in iron is just kicking your ass. Those days when it just won’t cooperate. When it seems to fight your efforts to just set it down without rolling away onto the expensive hotel carpet.

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Seeing it in your periphery, when your hands are full, being pulled to the floor by the hot & constricting lamp cord. Up on ladders and in lifts, extension cords and scalding hot irons shaped to roll can be an interesting challenge.

In this week’s video we’re taking a look at some interesting gear from Hakko that might be a good fit to keep in our bags all the time. The On-The-Go Kit comes with the FX-901 portable, battery powered iron, with a sub 30 second heat up time & a protective tip cover that lets you toss it right back in your kit when you’re done.

I’ve never been a fan of carrying butane irons, but the freedom from extension cords has made me buy a few over the years. If there is one thing that I always have on hand on gigs, it’s AA batteries in various states of charge. I tested the 901 with previously used Energizer Industrial batteries, recycled after a sound-check, and it made great use of them.

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Disclosure: Hakko was very nice to reach out and send these and other soldering tools over for us to check out & use on the channel. While this is not a paid review, you would be right to assume that I appreciate their support of the channel. I have used soldering equipment from most of the major brands over the years in various circumstances. I’ve genuinely enjoyed and trusted Hakko products in the past, so I’m happy to be able to feature them here in the future.

Check out the other gear used in this video*:

Hakko CHP-170 Micro Cutter

Hakko 599B

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