I purchased one of these stations a week and a half ago. Not an advertisement either but as someone that was VERY pleased with the construction and performance of a product received, I'd second Hero's recommendation. I think I ran across MPJA from Hero's recommendation for this iron on a similar post from someone looking for a good inexpensive iron shortly before I chose it. I was a little irritated they didn't have a breadboard I wanted in stock, but they notified me it wasn't available via a phone call immediatly and I removed the item, the remainder of the order was shipped the next day.