Bought a cheap hot-air workstation....

[Sylvia Else]

By cheap, I mean $159 Australian.

This is what happened the first time I tried to change the nozzle.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/g74o6cpvfo7ko66/T_HotAirStation2.jpg?dl=0

Turns out the metal tube that is meant to contain the heating element is
held in place only by friction.

So is the nozzle.

So when removing the nozzle, it\'s just a matter of which friction wins.
Not sure why the nozzle was so well attached, but it was.

The tube can be reattached, but the ground connection has been
compromised, making it unsafe.

I expect I\'ll get a refund.

Sylvia.

 

[legg]

On Sun, 12 Dec 2021 16:55:28 +1100, Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid>
wrote:

By cheap, I mean $159 Australian.

This is what happened the first time I tried to change the nozzle.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/g74o6cpvfo7ko66/T_HotAirStation2.jpg?dl=0

Turns out the metal tube that is meant to contain the heating element is
held in place only by friction.

So is the nozzle.

So when removing the nozzle, it\'s just a matter of which friction wins.
Not sure why the nozzle was so well attached, but it was.

The tube can be reattached, but the ground connection has been
compromised, making it unsafe.

I expect I\'ll get a refund.

Sylvia.

Doesn\'t look familiar.

The guns and the controllers can have widely varying origins and
still end up in the same retail box. The guns are repairable
and replaceable, if that is more convenient.

You might check to see if the controller\'s line fuse and on/off
switch are safely configured. This isn\'t something that a replacement
can fix - you\'d have to change yourself, if you don\'t want a
transformer meltdown (there is likely no thermal protection either).

I doubt there\'s a safety file anywhere that would be compromised
in doing so.

RL

 

[Ralph Mowery]

In article <j1lh6iF2f8fU1@mid.individual.net>, sylvia@email.invalid
says...

So is the nozzle.

So when removing the nozzle, it\'s just a matter of which friction wins.
Not sure why the nozzle was so well attached, but it was.

The tube can be reattached, but the ground connection has been
compromised, making it unsafe.

I expect I\'ll get a refund.

I bought one of the hot air stations that had a similar air wand and a
soldering pencil a few years ago and sofar it has been fine. Forgot
what I paid, but it was less than $ 100 US dollars. They are even less
now. Not a great hot air wand,but works well enough for a hobby. For
what I do and thhe price I have been pleased with it. Would not buy
one if I was in business using one every day.

 

[John Doe]

Ralph Mowery <rmowery42@charter.net> wrote:

sylvia@email.invalid says...

So is the nozzle.

So when removing the nozzle, it\'s just a matter of which friction wins.
Not sure why the nozzle was so well attached, but it was.

The tube can be reattached, but the ground connection has been
compromised, making it unsafe.

I expect I\'ll get a refund.

I bought one of the hot air stations that had a similar air wand and a
soldering pencil a few years ago and sofar it has been fine. Forgot
what I paid, but it was less than $ 100 US dollars.

Good for you.

What\'s the brand name? No idea? No longer available? Then your anecdote
means squat.

The problem is the Chinese Communist Party is destroying brand names. Brand
names help consumers choose good products. The cheap things I have are by
\"brands\" that are no longer available.

Look at the Chinese junk you have and see how many of those \"brands\" are
still available...

 

[Anthony William Sloman]

On Monday, December 13, 2021 at 1:40:59 PM UTC+11, John Doe wrote:

Ralph Mowery <rmow...@charter.net> wrote:

syl...@email.invalid says...

So is the nozzle.

So when removing the nozzle, it\'s just a matter of which friction wins..
Not sure why the nozzle was so well attached, but it was.

The tube can be reattached, but the ground connection has been
compromised, making it unsafe.

I expect I\'ll get a refund.

I bought one of the hot air stations that had a similar air wand and a
soldering pencil a few years ago and sofar it has been fine. Forgot
what I paid, but it was less than $ 100 US dollars.
Good for you.

What\'s the brand name? No idea? No longer available? Then your anecdote
means squat.

The problem is the Chinese Communist Party is destroying brand names.

Really?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei

They\'ve embraced free-enterprise capitalism as way of building up successful firms. They do insist on quite a lot of control of the firms, but killing off brand names would be pretty silly.

> Brand names help consumers choose good products. The cheap things I have are by \"brands\" that are no longer available.

John Doe could have been expected to buy excessively cheap things that would have come from firms too dumb to put enough quality into their products to get repeat business. Chinese companies aren\'t the only ones to make that mistake, but there has been a lot of stuff manufactured in China and some of it was remarkably cheap and crummy.

> Look at the Chinese junk you have and see how many of those \"brands\" are still available...

Not just Chinese. Of course I do try to avoid buying junk - my wife is less picky (and doesn\'t know as much about how stuff is put together).

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

On Mon, 13 Dec 2021 02:40:53 -0000 (UTC), John Doe
<always.look@message.header> wrote:

Ralph Mowery <rmowery42@charter.net> wrote:

sylvia@email.invalid says...

So is the nozzle.

So when removing the nozzle, it\'s just a matter of which friction wins.
Not sure why the nozzle was so well attached, but it was.

The tube can be reattached, but the ground connection has been
compromised, making it unsafe.

I expect I\'ll get a refund.

I bought one of the hot air stations that had a similar air wand and a
soldering pencil a few years ago and sofar it has been fine. Forgot
what I paid, but it was less than $ 100 US dollars.

Good for you.

What\'s the brand name? No idea? No longer available? Then your anecdote
means squat.

The problem is the Chinese Communist Party is destroying brand names. Brand
names help consumers choose good products. The cheap things I have are by
\"brands\" that are no longer available.

Look at the Chinese junk you have and see how many of those \"brands\" are
still available...

Haier.. no problem.

DJI.. no problem

Creality .. no problem.

Xiaomi.. no problem

Hisense .. no problem

Lenovo .. etc.

--
Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany