It’s $52 at the place I mentioned, Howard Electronics. It should come with the 1/32" tip, I bought a spare one of those, plus a 1/64" one, and the 1/8" chisel one. So far, still just have ht eoriginal one in there, after 8 years.
You know, sometimes I have to wonder about the “experts”. I just read an article by Bruce Petraca about connecting DCC to his garden railroad, and he mentioned trying a 40 watt iron to solder his #12 bus wires, but it didn;t work so he uses his 60 watt adjustable Weller cranked up to 800 degrees. And says he can’t solder when it is breezy, the wind sucks the heat right out of the joint. All I could do was shake my head while reading. This is what the 100-150 watt guns are for. Having the thing cranked to 800 degrees won’t do much more than burn out your tip, there’s no need to run that high for even silver solder, let along 60/40 and 63/37. The problem is, 60 watts is not enough power to put good heat into that much mass of metal - he’s using the heavy low voltage landscaping cable for feeders. Grab a cheap 150 watt gun and I’ll bet you’ll be able to solder those bus wires in any weather you’re comfortable working outside in.
Anyway, enjoy the Xytronics, you’ll soon be wondering why you didn’t get one years ago, like the rest of us did.
–Randy