We have poor selection(excluding clear chinese irons) at local stores only have 20-25euros Stannol-products 15W,30W,60W. Chinese ones are: Bahco, LUX-tools and such unbranded irons.
Otherwise it is eBay orderings and +2weeks shipping again sourcing and tracking from multiple places passing days until you are tired. I think every time I have to buy something decent and nice I have to order from eBay.

Funny thing is that for visibility I have to use a real budget cheap 1970's Zeiss DDR microscope for under 100e to use as a solder checking device and such. Eye's turn really poor when past +30 age. Especially when eyes are badly Lasik(laser) corrected and blurry 😒. Hated that Lasik 2000euros ruined my vision: blurry nights, glares and wearing sunglasses at daylight even after 6 years passed.
- I use a low magnifying combo of: 5x eyepieces and a basic 3,2x lens =16x total magnify.
Microscope forums had a hard time understanding that I wanted to solder and look surface things and not to search for: nematodes, pond animals, blood cells, brewing beer or other scientific reasons.

I used a Yihua 936 before for a year and a half. For it's price it was really good (~25€) but it had all kinds of issues after a while (power cord that broke, some resistors burned, the heating element that started to break, the mounting of the heating element breaking as well ...). Overall the TS100 is a much better investment for small budget : better temperature control, better technology, better quality ...

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We have poor selection(excluding clear chinese irons) at local stores only have 20-25euros Stannol-products 15W,30W,60W. Chinese […]
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We have poor selection(excluding clear chinese irons) at local stores only have 20-25euros Stannol-products 15W,30W,60W. Chinese ones are: Bahco, LUX-tools and such unbranded irons.
Otherwise it is eBay orderings and +2weeks shipping again sourcing and tracking from multiple places passing days until you are tired. I think every time I have to buy something decent and nice I have to order from eBay.

Funny thing is that for visibility I have to use a real budget cheap 1970's Zeiss DDR microscope for under 100e to use as a solder checking device and such. Eye's turn really poor when past +30 age. Especially when eyes are badly Lasik(laser) corrected and blurry 😒. Hated that Lasik 2000euros ruined my vision: blurry nights, glares and wearing sunglasses at daylight even after 6 years passed.
- I use a low magnifying combo of: 5x eyepieces and a basic 3,2x lens =16x total magnify.
Microscope forums had a hard time understanding that I wanted to solder and look surface things and not to search for: nematodes, pond animals, blood cells, brewing beer or other scientific reasons.

Sometimes even on eBay you don't get the real deal, like AMTECH flux, if not all of the listing currently available on ebay most of it are counterfeit.

The nice thing about the T12 / T15 yumcha irons is that their job is so simple, electrically. All the important parts (thermal sensor, heating element) are in the tip, and you can buy those as clones or genuine Hakko units. The Hakko 936 clones made due with temperature sensors and heating elements with varying levels of dodgy-ness even if you spent the money for high quality tips.

I bought a basic Stannol 15W iron 20e+spare tips:15e it had a wide selection of sharp needle tips* ( Spare tips were "made in Germany").
- Solder is Stannol Kristall 511: 0,5mm. Sn95,5 Ag3,8 Cu0,7 lead free. Sounded ok.

The more expensive solder stations selection was:
1.) Stannol Industa 550 price 130e. It had also some nice sharp tips.
Any experience on Industa 550 ?
2.) Weller® WHS40 / WHS40D solder station was for 100e / 150e.
What about this ?