Hakko FX-888D Soldering Station Hi-Res Teardown Photos...links

IMO, this is how NOT to present a topic like this.  It took over three minutes of a 12 minute video to take four screws out of the bottom!  Who has time to waste like this on watching that, it's like watching paint dry!

There are videos, and then there are good videos, this isn't one of the good ones, again IMO.

Agreed! I usually use fast forward...skipping "Hi, my name is....I was born in New Jersey...this is my layout, etc". And the removal of screws live. But I thought someone might want to see it's guts. The links were part of a project to install a timed off feature because someone left theirs on for 8 days or some such. I did not know it doesn't have a feature like that, the Weller WES51 does.

In twenty years of using Hakko iron I have never need to take one apart.  Metcal on the other hand is a different story 

I know someone else that left on on for a while too long...   Fortunately he had a switch at the basement stairs that turns off the power to the trains and work benches. However, he got one of these timers shown below and wired it to control the outlet for the Hakko. Prices have gone up a LOT, he only paid about $8 shipped for his last year. He has yet to use the 4 hour setting...So far so good. 

cjack posted:

Agreed! I usually use fast forward...skipping "Hi, my name is....I was born in New Jersey...this is my layout, etc". And the removal of screws live. But I thought someone might want to see it's guts. The links were part of a project to install a timed off feature because someone left theirs on for 8 days or some such. I did not know it doesn't have a feature like that, the Weller WES51 does.

The links to the pictures were good, it was just the video I was commenting on.  I'm not a big video fan for stuff like this anyway, a series of pictures is far more useful.  With pictures, you can look at the item in question longer until you "get it", with video it flashes by, or it sits there way too long after I've seen all I need for that view.

As far as auto-shutoff, I manage to turn my stuff off, even my lights.   I see where for some of the absent-minded that feature would be useful.