Great price for replacement iron tips for the CSI-1A soldering station

**Penfold** · 03-28-2012, 04:37 PM

http://www.ebay.com/itm/10-Solder-So...item3a718033de

I bought these about a month ago. They fit the CSI-1A soldering station and I haven't soldered with them yet, but I will hopefully be getting to that tomorrow. I well let you guys know. Ya just can't beat 10 tips for $5.79 though.

**Wayne J** · 03-28-2012, 06:28 PM

Looking forward to a report on them. I may buy some myself.

**tfischer** · 03-29-2012, 12:10 AM

Following this thread as well, as I have the CSI-2A (great station, don't know why they discontinued it) which takes the same tips. Please do report back.

As an aside, are the non-pointy tips very useful for electronics work?

**CaptKirk** · 03-29-2012, 12:55 PM

I was wondering the same thing. The best ones are the chisel-point and pointy ones (IMHO) and I was wondering about the usefulness of the other 7 tips... Still, this is VERY interesting.

**Penfold** · 03-30-2012, 12:05 PM

Ok..... I put together a board yesterday with a .06 chisel tip,I believe it was (might have been a .08). It was the first time I tried to solder with a chisel tip by the way and it went very well. I prefer the conical tips myself. Anyways, after the soldering the tip looks to be in good shape.

I would give this a thumbs up!

Of course the only bad part of this is that you have to wait about two to three weeks for the tips to come in and they do a lot of shimmying and shaking on the way to you so the plastic sleeve that the tips were put it might tear (Mine was torn, but the tips were intact).