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Originally posted by Spy021
Also are their any particular brands that I should consider or avoid?
Thanks in advance!
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I've had a lot of good use out of an Oryx Portasol Professional -- it was a reasonable priced set (around 30UKP) with the iron, a few attachments (hot knife, hot air blower, mini blowtorch and soldering iron bit). The gas flow is variable, allowing you to loosely control temperature. It has a flint igniter (replaced with standard Ronson flints).
The bits are cheap to replace, but the "3rd party" spares can be a bit nasty: I got much more service out of the original bit than the Brand-X replacement. 1.0mm bit is the smallest I know of for these, which is just about ok for surface mount.