just got this for free from the good folks upstairs. nothing beats a free soldering iron (the one i have a cheap one from home depot) but is it any good? has a nice little slider for temperature control. cant find too much info on it online so i thought i would ask.

the guy who runs the electrical engineering labs is cleaning house so is giving away a crapload of stuff (transformers/old drivers/test equipment/anything under the sun). i already called dibs on anything audio and surprisingly he hasnt had any requests for the stuff i put my name down for so should be nice.

he used to work for bendix back in the day and has some 600 tubes in pristine condition he is trying to get rid of. dont know if ill be able to get those but if i do, ill pass them around for the cost of shipping to anyone who wants specific ones.

dunno, but free is always good unless it burns the house down.

i turned it on a few minutes ago and it stank up the office so bad people couldnt sit in there. the guy that i got it from said that it was one of the better pieces that he had tested so he gave it to me.