Yep. My station today is an old 2nd hand Metcal. It beats the Hakko 951 i had in my previous workplace, which in itself is a very nice iron too
@Multisubject And that was not my 1st iron. My first was the cheapest 25W iron (of standard 25W size) of the late 90s. Something from China with a black bakelite handle, no ground, no company name, and an anonymous gold QC PASS label
It lasted for a while and its tip didnt erode, but one day while i was soldering it just died with a bang and white flash from the rifle holes around the heating element's external tube
I got a 2nd identical one. It lasted for a while too. One day i came to solder something, put the iron on the component, touched the solder wire to the point, and got slapped with full 230V through the solder wire, hand, body and foot
Then i got the one described above, that had ground and lasted for many years despite the bad tip