Originally Posted by odpurple

The Hakko 936 is a good choice, but if you want to do good work on cirquit boards you wll want a small tip, like 2mm. You can get two irons for the station and switch them but the best way to go is the Hakko 928 dual soldering station. Then you can have a large handle and tip that will work for everything but batteries, and the teenie tip for cirquit board work. You can solder batteries with the 928 but its better done with a 456. 455 works great too but the 456 shows no mercy