deskthority

Two Pace ST30 soldering stations in the UK at a great price:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/221774353399
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/221774351292

These use the TD100 handpiece (don't bother with PS90), with the tips (around 90 geometries, and last forever with proper care) running around $10 each stateside. Not sure what the prices on the other side of the pond are like, but I know that it's pretty uncommon to find these at such prices. Highly recommended as I own a Pace station myself.

Heatup time is under 10 seconds, and these run circles around anything similar of Hakko.

Whats the spongy thing and the goldish looking metal shavings?

That's for wiping the tip of your iron and keeping it clean.

I'm actually rather confused by one of the stations having a cutout with a sponge looking thing inside. That's not normal, and I have no idea what that is. The stand having brass wool and sponge pad is normal though - people like one or the other or both. I prefer just the brass wool myself to avoid thermal shock on the tips. Simply stab the wool to clean the tip of excess solder and flux residue.

Wow those are really good prices. Too bad they aren't in the US...

I don't know anything about soldering stations, but might want to upgrade.

What about those two other ones that the same guy wants to sell?
- http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/221774357864
- http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/221774362113

The heatwise are older but still nearly-as-good stations compared to the modern intelliheat stations (ST, MBT, etc) with the blue connector. The trick to the heatwises is that they are controlled by these 3.5mm modules that use a set resistor value to set a certain temperature. One can make these modules themselves (documentation is available for which resistance corresponds to which temp) or buy them. The main disadvantage is that this is not as convenient as a knob or buttons to change temperature. There's a similar older Pace that still uses the TD100 called a tempwise, which looked similar but with digital temperature control.

Plus one of them doesn't have the correct stand.

TL;DR: Go with the ST30, more convenient but pretty much the same performance and in this particular case cheaper (usually on US ebay heatwise is found cheaper)

Okay, thanks! And is that normal that the head of the cartridge is curved like this on this one?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/221774351292

Curved would be OK, but that tip seems oxidized beyond repair. You'd probably need a new one.

Kinda hard to tell, but that tip looks like it has tinned solder on the end, so it'll likely still work, if whomever used it previously observed the best practice of putting your tips away with a coat of solder still on them.

Regardless, for generic soldering I prefer chisel tips - Pace PN 1124-0013-P1 is a good size. Full listing can be seen here:

https://www.paceworldwide.com/products/ ... td100-tips

not sure if it was already posted, but those could be sad keycaps?

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Highscreen-Vobis ... 51d04b1a96

I posted it like three times, it's on Ebay for monthes and yeah, that's SAD.

ramnes wrote: I posted it like three times, it's on Ebay for monthes and yeah, that's SAD.

Is it a G80 or G81? (e.g. MX switches?)

Should be G81, Highscreen never made a G80 as far as I know.

This is a nice looking NEC APC-H25. A little rich for my blood but good looking none the less.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Antique ... 1418711700

rsbseb wrote: This is a nice looking NEC APC-H25. A little rich for my blood but good looking none the less.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Antique ... 1418711700

Ooh, damn thats nice


Crazy price however but the caps are heaven

Lunacy.

But it will look good in Round 5. (Another kind of lunacy.)

Cherry Amiga 2000
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Amiga-2000-Tasta ... 5b12342675

Someone got a good price on that one...
http://www.ebay.de/itm/391140309650?_tr ... EBIDX%3AIT

ramnes wrote: Someone got a good price on that one...
http://www.ebay.de/itm/391140309650?_tr ... EBIDX%3AIT

That would be XMIT.

Yeah I know, posted this just before he announced it.

Another person got a good deal: http://www.ebay.fr/itm/271863394533?ssP ... fresh=true

Two different AT going at <= 50$ tonight, what's wrong with you american people?

GT6OMNIKEY - looks like a Northgate Omnikey with black and blue key caps and a black case. Don't know if they're double shots or not.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/301604322385

Nice find, didn't know they did them in black .

For-
ward

It may be the later rebirth that the northgate had ( similar to unicomp and the model M) i forget the name avant springs to mind but i am not sure.

Ether way someone best get that is loverly

ramnes wrote:

kbdfr wrote: 50€

Anybody interested in one for 20€, local pick-up only in Berlin-Schöneberg, drop me a PM.
People registering after my post pay 30€, DT club members 15€.
I have several, hence: nur solange Vorrat reicht

Would you sell just the windowed caps?

Of course, if you pick them up at my place
Seriously, you are aware they are German caps, are you?

Oops. I never noticed the local pickup part. You don't happen to live close to 7bit do you? He could probably squeeze a full size board in amongst my Round 5 caps. They weigh about the same!

kbdfr wrote: Of course, if you pick them up at my place
Seriously, you are aware they are German caps, are you?

Yep. Those windowed caps only exist in German anyway, don't they?

And then you could send me the F5 key at the same time!

There seems to exist a French version of the keyboard:
http://deskthority.net/wiki/Cherry_G80-1501

French windowed caps are also to be found on the G80-2100, by the way.

The F5 you mean is the dyesubbed one, right?

kbdfr wrote: There seems to exist a French version of the keyboard:
http://deskthority.net/wiki/Cherry_G80-1501

French windowed caps are also to be found on the G80-2100, by the way.

Neat! But I'd use them with a QWERTZ set anyway.

The F5 you mean is the dyesubbed one, right?

Yeah.

Did you ever get those SARs ramnes?