Congrats Gregg! I saw your post on the Tekin thread. Awesome!

As for the soldering station, check out that Hakko 936ESD. Awesome station. Goes up to 900F, IIRC. I used it on my RX8 and it worked awesome*. Solder flowed very nicely, and I was able to get pretty decent solder joints.

*Except where I touched the RX8 shroud with the iron by accident...oops!