^^ +1, I've been real pleased with mine (its a 936 station). I let soldering chores pile up as much as I can and then set my Hakko station up and take are of them one after another. I use deans 12ga for building adapters and converters and I don't have probs with joints. My deans to bullets converters see a fair amount of current and have shown no indication that they can't handle even more.